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By four years of age, girls tend to think that boys are academically inferior to them. Teachers often see their female students as academically superior, even when aptitude tests show the opposite pattern for their classes.
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Artificial intelligence has unleashed a torrent of cheating on campus and created chaos in the job application process, as both students and employers use large language models: the former, to write hundreds of AI-assisted applications; the latter, to screen those AI-written applications with AI-written filters, thus removing from the process of finding a first job those procedural frictions sometimes known as "people."
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The deeper lesson is that education has to be research-based and proven to work measurably, not just based on positive emotions or customer satisfaction.
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From one piece How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A school should be judged on how fast its students are learning, not on how much they already know when measured.Their words
And you should measure a school based on the rate of learning and the slope of the line, the growth rate, not its achievement.
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The level of academics that those students know is very low because the parents have basically abandoned that and said, "I care all about the life skills." For parents who really care about academics, those kids crush it.
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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing MachineTheir words
I guess you can’t go wrong with Charles Petzold. This book is excellent and highly recommended to anyone interested in computing. Must read for computer science students and software developers.
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The other kind of danger is in the name of agency and and uh and motivation the tools are denied to our students because we're worried you cheat or worry you only got your answer from Chad GBT. That is very bad as well
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I think a lot of people, especially students, are unfortunately learning everything through LLMs. So a lot of that isn't really learning, they're just kind of cheating and they're just doing everything like that. And then they lose a lot of their skills
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although students' personal statements seem more creative because they use more varied words, they actually feature less original ideas. AI writing produces an illusion of creativity.
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I truly believe that following this kind of approach to AI in the classroom would, in the aggregate, produce better learning outcomes than the research and writing workflows available to students pre-AI.
27 May
From one piece Why I'm Skeptical About Efforts to Revolutionize Schooling 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Gamified learning is medicine wrapped in candy, and in practice children eat the candy and throw the medicine away.Their words
Gamified learning is a bit like wrapping medicine in candy. Yes, it may help some students swallow some instruction they otherwise find bitter, but in practice it’s easy to pull off the candy, consume it, and throw the medicine away.
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General problem solving abilities are neither learned nor taught. While some problem-solving methods have broader applicability than others (such as the scientific process of hypothesis testing), students learn these methods better when they’re explicitly taught rather than simply giving students projects and hoping they’ll reinvent them on their own.
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We don't ask the students to write essays because we love reading their amazing essays. We ask them to write essays because they we want them to go through a thought process, which helps them learn something.
24 March
From one piece When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School, They Usually Mean Schools Without "Bad Kids" 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You can staff a school with the best teachers on earth, give them unlimited resources, and wrap the place in every evidence-based intervention imaginable, and it still won’t work if students are resistant, disengaged, or actively hostile to the enterprise.
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Putting the children most likely to succeed into one school is segregation, not educational excellence.Their words
Simply creating artificial separation between different students is not a strategy for “educational excellence.” It’s just segregation.
12 March
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But if you know anything about my obsession with selection bias, you can predict the outcome: when you expand access from a population that excludes more students to one that excludes fewer, you’re very likely to see declining performance.
1 December 2025
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So many of us in the education world have seen this precise change in our students over the past decade: They have more difficulty reading books, sitting through a 75-minute class, or doing their homework.
28 September 2025
From one piece There Are No Miracles in Education 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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That’s how educational miracles are manufactured: through artificially creating selection bias, which is the most powerful force in education.
There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com
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Academic talent is normally distributed, so some students failing is inevitable rather than anybody's fault.Their words
Academic talent is normally distributed throughout the population, and so some degree of failure is literally inevitable.
There Are No Miracles in Educationfreddiedeboer.substack.com
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NASA has deferred its next great telescope so far that the people who would build it will have retired first.Their words
Current PhD students will be nearing retirement by the time these missions fly.
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31 October 2024
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What Your Professor Thinks You Already Know About US PoliticsTheir words
I forget (again!) how I chanced across it, but it fills a very real need for a lot of the students in my inequality class, and I intend to make it recommended/optional reading in the future. (I'll have to see if the library can buy a digital copy.)
13 May 2024
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The Writing WorkshopTheir words
I highly recommend this for graduate students and postdocs, but it’s useful for the rest of us as well.
22 April 2024
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If you think about how we teach quantum mechanics to our students, the Copenhagen interpretation, it’s a God-awful mess. No one’s going to accuse that of being very beautiful. I’m a fan of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, and that is very beautiful in the sense that fewer ingredients, just one equation, and it could cover everything in the world.
16 May 2023
From one piece I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Instruction is collaborative: students want to learn, and I want them to learn, too. Evaluation is adversarial: students want the points, and I have to make sure they don’t get too many.
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Grading flattens whatever is taught into what can be tested, and teaches students to ignore everything else.Their words
Evaluation forces me to flatten everything I teach into something that can be tested, and it encourages students to ignore everything that isn’t on the test.
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If my class is so boring that I have to devise an additional carrot-and-stick system to get students to pay attention, the problem is my class is boring.
I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a copexperimental-history.com
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The students who ultimately succeed in learning R are not the ones who force themselves to memorize functions or do a bunch of coding drills.
25 May 2022
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Pure discovery learning, where students are never shown instructions or examples, fails miserably.
3 December 2021
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Number: The Language of ScienceTheir words
Though the book perhaps gets a little too math-ey by the end (and this is coming from someone who is literally teaching discrete mathematics to university students at the moment), Dantzig provides a compelling overview of what we mean when we talk about "numbers," and why this is a question that we must repeatedly keep re-visiting.
2 July 2020
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DesmosTheir words
It's an online graphing calculator that makes it very simple to whip up surprisingly complicated graphs. I found it abundantly useful for live presentations over a stream, and what's nice is that you can share the links of what you build so that students can play with them.
1 June 2020
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Primes of the Form x^2 + n y^2Their words
This might seem like a bizarrely specific question to write a whole book about, but that's actually the charm. It covers deep and general ideas, such as class field theory and elliptic functions, which are usually only taught to graduate students, but Cox approaches it all from an extremely concrete question which Fermat thought about.
28 May 2019
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The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and MeaningTheir words
Scott Galloway, The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning: Galloway should be familiar to readers as both the brand strategy professor at NYU Stern School of Business, a regular guest on Masters in Business, and as the author of The Four. He usually writes about technology and business, but concern with his students’ life issues led to this 10 minute YouTube video that garnered nearly 2 million views. That became this lovely short book which is likely to be a graduation and holiday gift for years to come.
22 February 2018
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