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Re:Why I'm Skeptical About Efforts to Revolutionize Schooling by kelseyfrog on Friday June 05, 2026 @02:18PM (#48416242)
What evidence would change your mind?
Re:Why I'm Skeptical About Efforts to Revolutionize Schooling by bradleyjg on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:18PM (#48420425)
Strong correlations to actual outcomes. That can be career outcomes or otherwise but actual outcomes people care about. Not test scores.

We have a zillion natural experiments because there are so many schools in the world and within many of them teachers given a lot of leeway.

Does any of it make a damn bit of difference controlling for everything else? We have Waldorf schools teaching woodworking and cram schools shoving AP courses at eighth graders—-that’s a large difference, what do life outcomes show?

Re:Why I'm Skeptical About Efforts to Revolutionize Schooling by kelseyfrog on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:41PM (#48420539)
That's fair. It helps knowing what would change things. Thank you for sharing! appreciate it