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Re:Chan-Zuckerberg’s Chief Of Staff Reveals Plan For Big-Bet... by ploxiln on Friday December 11, 2015 @09:29PM (#10721533)
"fixing schools" is a fundamentally different kind of problem - it's one where we can't even agree on what a "big success" would look like. For who exactly? (only "low-performing" children?) To what end? (jobs? liberal sentiment?) How mandatory?

"fixing diseases" and "fixing poverty" are things where maybe we don't agree on the best way to go about them, but we probably mostly agree on what a "big success" would be.

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Re:Chan-Zuckerberg’s Chief Of Staff Reveals Plan For Big-Bet... by jfoutz on Friday December 11, 2015 @11:23PM (#10721782)
I would really like to see an emphasis on education rather than training. No child left behind sort of moved us to this pure metrics approach that makes things kinda sucky. it's hard to measure education.

Rather than define precisely what i mean, consider the difference between sex education and sex training, i think you'll get the idea.

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