tcj

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Ezra Klein Leaving Vox for The New York Times(nytimes.com)
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Bohm Dialogue (1991) [pdf](sprott.physics.wisc.edu)
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by tcj 7y ago
Very interesting idea to put this on GitHub. As a side, I think there's room in the market for a company that builds a place for companies to version control their manuals. I've seen several companies that would like to keep a Git
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by tcj 7y ago
For anyone who enjoyed this, a lot of these ideas were really well discussed a few years back in Neil Postman's "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" (1969) and John Dewey's "Democracy & Education" (1916). As
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by tcj 7y ago
I agree, especially in regards to knowing where to improve. But a bigger question is what do we consider effectiveness? Do higher scores on math tests mean a school is more effective than another? Because if we do we are saying that the &qu
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by tcj 7y ago
I agree with a lot of what you are saying. I agree that standardized or even blind testing is probably a much fairer way to evaluate. There is a reason scientific research uses double-blind tests. It eliminates a lot of biases and racism. (
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by tcj 7y ago
I couldn't agree with this thread more. "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by Neil Postman is a wonderful read that addresses how our obsession with grades, courses and syllabi is completely contrary to helping people learn.
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by tcj 7y ago
There are numerous options. First you could use more evaluative criteria. This is how most knowledge workers are evaluated in most modern startups. Unless you work on sales, you are probably measured by the quality of your thinking, your at
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by tcj 7y ago
Why do you need to compare districts and schools across a state in the first place?
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by tcj 7y ago
It’s still baffling to me how much emphasis we still place on test scores.
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Chesterton's Fence(en.wikipedia.org)
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Paying the Piper(laphamsquarterly.org)
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Appreciate other companies solving the same problem(tuliojarocki.com)
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Batch Delivery as a Solution to Notification Overload(tuliojarocki.com)
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