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I had a conversation about 10 years ago with a high-ranking DoEd official in Obama’s administration who was gushing over 2 sigma as a strategic framing for publ

I had a conversation about 10 years ago with a high-ranking DoEd official in Obama’s administration who was gushing over 2 sigma as a strategic framing for public education. Now this person is a very influential funder in edtech and ed reform. I think their heart is in the right place but it’s kinda crazy how no one above the school principal level is actively building strategy or executing tactics to address the basics of a good learning disposition: sleep, nutrition, safety, etc. By the time the robo-tutor is perfected, normalized trauma is going to make it useless for most school kids.

germinalphrase 4y ago
“… it’s kinda crazy how no one above the school principal level is actively building strategy or executing tactics to address the basics of a good learning disposition: sleep, nutrition, safety, etc” By virtue of having been students, many people assume they understand how to be an effective educator - but many problems in schools are not, strictly speaking, education problems; they are social problems they come to school.