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Re:Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:31PM (#18781379)
I think more testing initiatives, whether to help failing schools or in top schools are misinformed at best and cancer at worst. They eventually would converge to east asia style meaningless competitive exams which are utterly destructive to any actual learning.
Re:Why I’m so “against” Ethereum on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:29PM (#18781371)
Vitalik Buterin disagrees with you specifically on the topic of endlessly increasing impractical eth blockchain:

https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/because-of-ethereums-expo...

Re:Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:08PM (#18780938)
What did anyone expect when everyone whole-heartedly supported more mandatory testing and measurement intiatives to help failing schools, almost about a decade back? If you start emphasizing test scores, that's all that will be optimized.