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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 25

    Austen Allred Retweeted Sam Freedman

    So many people are calling this a failure. Knowing the stuff that doesn't work *should* save billions in future spendinghttps://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1011354662069514240 …

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    Sam Freedman @Samfr
    The Gates foundation spent almost $600m (not including staff time) on an experiment to see if rigorous teacher evaluation tied to performance management would improve results. It didn't. https://twitter.com/MatthewAKraft/status/1009982822856130560 …
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      2. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Maybe Gates has the wrong performance metrics and incentives. Aka Lambda School style, tie teacher pay to actual earnings of their students.

        1 reply 0 retweets 16 likes
      3. Alex Konrad‏Verified account @alexrkonrad Jun 25
        Replying to @typesfast @AustenAllred

        You must not have any teachers close to you in your life if you don’t see how disastrous that would be for them

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Ryan Petersen‏Verified account @typesfast Jun 25
        Replying to @alexrkonrad @AustenAllred

        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?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Alex Konrad‏Verified account @alexrkonrad Jun 26
        Replying to @typesfast @AustenAllred

        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.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      6. Alex Konrad‏Verified account @alexrkonrad Jun 26
        Replying to @alexrkonrad @typesfast @AustenAllred

        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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      7. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 26
        Replying to @alexrkonrad @typesfast

        I don’t think anyone is suggesting it for K-12

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      1. Dave W‏ @Portereagle Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        The Gates Foundation is also vigorously pushing the college for all (to lift all boats) agenda

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      2. John Gaffney‏ @jfpgaffney Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        More likely scenario: those many billions are spent, it still doesn't work, and the claim is that "it wasn't really tried"......

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Ben M‏ @mentalben Jun 25
        Replying to @jfpgaffney @AustenAllred

        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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      1. Andrew  👏 K  👏 Musselman  👏‏ @akm Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        *narrator voice*

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      1. EJ‏ @erikleejohnson Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        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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      1. ᛄᚩᚾ᛫ᚠᛄᚩᚾᛚᚪᛇ᛫ᛗᚪᛄᚱ‏ @idlebystander Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        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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      1. Rocky Pruitt‏ @RockyPruitt Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        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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      1. Lumifer‏ @lumiferrous Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        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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      1. Gokul‏ @gokulns Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        As Bezos said somewhere, if you know it's going to work in advance, it's not an experiment.

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      1. Drew Moxon‏ @DSMoxon Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        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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      1. Noah Rosenberg‏ @nrose Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        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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      1. Andreas Klinger  ✌️‏Verified account @andreasklinger Jun 25
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Game theory can save lives.

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