Maybe Gates has the wrong performance metrics and incentives. Aka Lambda School style, tie teacher pay to actual earnings of their students.
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You must not have any teachers close to you in your life if you don’t see how disastrous that would be for them
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But yes you first need to learn to think. Wonder why it’s so hard to measure teacher performance. Any insights from your teacher contacts?
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The challenge, from what I can tell, is that almost no 2 teachers are given the same situation. Your idea would discourage teachers from working with high risk students, immigrants, disadvantaged—and would reorient education incentives dangerously to funnel kids straight to jobs.
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I like Lambda, Holburton etc and what they can accomplish but I strongly believe the incentives would get skewed at the high school level, and that all students should have access to a high school education that isn’t tied to their immediate earnings upon graduation.
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I don’t think anyone is suggesting it for K-12
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The Gates Foundation is also vigorously pushing the college for all (to lift all boats) agenda
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More likely scenario: those many billions are spent, it still doesn't work, and the claim is that "it wasn't really tried"......
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ding ding ding. See the guy who shared this, Sam Freedman, already blaming teachers for why a stupid system could never work. But if he and his toadying buddy Michael Gove were still in education, they'd be blindly forcing it through anyway. Cockwombles, the pair of them.
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*narrator voice*
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Calling it a failure is a misunderstanding of experimentation’s value. Clear findings of what does and doesn’t work is the goal, not proving what you *want* to work. Expensive, but guessing a clear answer was worth the cost to them.
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It’s a failure of the hypothesis, but you’re right that we’ve gotta encourage the publication of negative results.
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better....
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There are... well-entrenched interests which will make sure this knowledge is dropped into the memory hole and never seen again
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As Bezos said somewhere, if you know it's going to work in advance, it's not an experiment.
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In addition to the null result, another value of the $600M that the Gates Foundation spent is to defend against the argument that the program wasn't tested at a large enough scale.
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It would only be a failure if it got no data. An experiment doesn’t have a pass/fail objective, that’s the point!
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Game theory can save lives.
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