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9 Best Articles in 2021
The Atlantic
Private Schools Are IndefensibleThe Atlantic
20+ min read · Mar 11th · The gulf between how rich kids and poor kids are educated in America is obscene.
education
privilege
inequality
Harvard Business Review
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught in a Classroom?Harvard Business Review
4 min read · 2020-08-07 · How some business schools rewrote the script.
startups
business
The New York Times
Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools. That Started a Rebellion.The New York Times
9 min read · From 2019 · Public schools in Kansas rolled out a web-based learning platform backed by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Now students have staged walkouts and sit-ins. Their parents have organized.
freeCodeCamp.org
Here are 250 Ivy League courses you can take online right now for freefreeCodeCamp.org
~11 min read · 2020-03-15 · The 8 Ivy League schools are among the most prestigious colleges in the world. They include Brown, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, and Columbia universities, and the University of…
education
world
online courses
The Atlantic
Schools Aren’t Super-SpreadersThe Atlantic
3 min read · 2020-10-09 · Fears from the summer appear to have been overblown.
coronavirus
The New Yorker
How San Francisco Renamed Its SchoolsThe New Yorker
7 min read · Feb 6th · The president of the San Francisco Board of Education discusses the controversies around reopening and renaming her district’s schools, including questions about how to view the legacies of complex…
Sky News Tech
Artificial intelligence being used in schools to detect self-harm and bullyingSky News Tech
3 min read · 2019-09-21 · The tool is used by 50,000 schoolchildren at 150 schools and one says it has helped decrease self-harm by 20%.
artificial intelligence
youtube.com
What Most Schools Don't Teachyoutube.com
From 2013 · Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in 90% of US schools. Starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony H...
The Economist
Closing schools for covid-19 does lifelong harm and widens inequalityThe Economist
8 min read · 2020-04-28 · Primary schools in particular are vital to social mobility
society
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The New York Times
Lost Lives, Lost Culture: The Forgotten History of Indigenous Boarding SchoolsThe New York Times
9 min read · Jul 19th · Thousands of Native American children attended U.S. boarding schools designed to “civilize the savage.” Many died. Many who lived are reclaiming their identity.
history
psychology
Harvard Business Review
Why Business Schools Need to Teach ExperimentationHarvard Business Review
5 min read · Jun 16th · These skills are in high demand — and should be part of the MBA curriculum.
business
Highlights
In a dramatic departure from its historic role as an esoteric tool for academic research, the randomized controlled trial has gone mainstream
For centuries, in all sorts of professional arenas, we’ve relied on experimentation and the scientific method to generate reliable and insightful outcomes
Mark Manson
Social Media Isn't the Problem... We AreMark Manson
20+ min read · Jun 7th · When I was a kid, there were serious discussions in churches, schools, and in front of Congress about whether the music my friends and I listened to might be satanic. I remember my friend’s mother…
social media
digital life
relationships
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The Social Dilemma accuses everyone else of doing exactly what it, itself, is guilty of doing. The film is an echo chamber of people all sharing the exact same perspective with no dissent whatsoever.
Power doesn’t always corrupt, but power always reveals.” Perhaps the same is true of the most powerful networks in human history.
The New York Times
The War on History Is a War on DemocracyThe New York Times
~17 min read · Jun 29th · A scholar of totalitarianism argues that new laws restricting the discussion of race in American schools have dire precedents in Europe.
history
politics
society
Highlights
That might make sense from the perspective of a white person whose concern is not to be regarded as a racist, and who can conclude that the best way to avoid the risk of such discomfort is to keep the subject off the table
History is not therapy, and discomfort is part of growing up. As a teacher, I cannot exclude the possibility, for example, that my non-Jewish students will feel psychological distress in learning how little the United States did for Jewish refugees in the 1930s. I know from my experience teaching the Holocaust that it often causes psychological discomfort for students to learn that Hitler admired Jim Crow and the myth of the Wild West. Teachers in high schools cannot exclude the possibility that the history of slavery, lynchings and voter suppression will make some non-Black students uncomfortable.
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World Economic Forum
Finland thinks it has designed the perfect school. This is what it looks likeWorld Economic Forum
3 min read · From 2017 · Finland is removing barriers between subjects, as well as classrooms.
education
schools
finland
The New York Times
In Flint, Mich., Lead Crisis Moves From Homes to SchoolsThe New York Times
~11 min read · 2019-11-06 · The city’s schools, stretched even before the lead crisis, are struggling with demands for individualized education programs and behavioral interventions for children with high lead exposure.
The New York Times
Lost Lives, Lost Culture: The Forgotten History of Indigenous Boarding SchoolsThe New York Times
9 min read · Jul 19th · Thousands of Native American children attended U.S. boarding schools designed to “civilize the savage.” Many died. Many who lived are reclaiming their identity.
history
psychology
Vox
Mapping the imaginary lines we use to segregate our schoolsVox
9 min read · From 2018 · Is your district drawing borders to reduce or perpetuate segregation?
schools
segregation
WIRED
The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in SchoolsWIRED
3 min read · 2019-10-17 · A growing number of districts are deploying cameras and software to prevent attacks. But the systems are also used to monitor students, and adult critics.
facial recognition
schools
ProPublica
The Unproven, Invasive Surveillance Technology Schools Are Using to Monitor StudentsProPublica
10 min read · From 2019 · In response to mass shootings, some schools and hospitals are installing microphones equipped with algorithms. The devices purport to identify stress and anger before violence erupts. Our testing…
education
surveillance
artificial intelligence
Big Think
10 Schools of Philosophy and Why You Should Know ThemBig Think
8 min read · From 2017 · There are many famous schools of thought that you have probably heard of, but did you hear the truth or just get a caricature of the idea?
philosophy
tools
mental models
Harvard Business Review
Why Business Schools Need to Teach ExperimentationHarvard Business Review
5 min read · Jun 16th · These skills are in high demand — and should be part of the MBA curriculum.
business
Highlights
In a dramatic departure from its historic role as an esoteric tool for academic research, the randomized controlled trial has gone mainstream
For centuries, in all sorts of professional arenas, we’ve relied on experimentation and the scientific method to generate reliable and insightful outcomes
The Washington Post
‘I’m sorry, but it’s a fantasy’The Washington Post
2020-08-02 · Jeff Gregorich, superintendent, on trying to reopen his schools safely
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