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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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    1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      14. Universities and colleges that achieve accreditation (the kind that matters) are incredibly locked in as to what they teach, how long they teach it, and what requirements are

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    2. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      15. Code bootcamps know they don’t prepare programmers very well for the job market, but they can’t lengthen their programs because then they’d have to increase the prices they charge accordingly, and the market disappears at 2x bootcamp prices

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    3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      16. There are many, many code bootcamps with <25% hiring rate that do millions of dollars per year in revenue by promising jobs

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    4. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      17. People rely mainly on their parents for advice on what to do about education, and that has to be among the worst places to go for educational advice

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    5. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      18. Economically we vastly undervalue education. A $10k swing in income when you’re 20 yrs old is actually worth $400k+ over your lifetime, but we’re (rightfully) skeptical of the returns

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    6. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      19. We really have no way to measure how much universities help because there’s so much selection bias involved. E.g. what if you took all the people that got accepted to Stanford or Harvard and had them all go to the same community college? Or different schools? We don’t know.

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    7. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      20. People who have never made upper middle class jobs are unused to working for people that want them to succeed

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    8. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      21. Lack of access to a computer almost kept some of our best students from being able to attend. Those aren’t expensive.

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    9. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      22. Bank accounts are surprisingly hard to get if you don’t have much money

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    10. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      23. One of the biggest limiting factor in many Americans getting an education is geography. They don’t live near a college/university and making that move would be tremendously expensive relative to their incomes

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      Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      That’s all for now. Thanks for playing!

      10:21 PM - 9 Mar 2018
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        2. Mike Slagh‏ @mslagh Mar 10
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Learned a lot from this tweetstorm and would love to talk about sending more soon-to-be military veterans your way when you have a chance

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        3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 10
          Replying to @mslagh

          We <3 military vets. You can teach that work ethic to do anything.

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        4. Keith Wasserman‏ @Keith_Wasserman Mar 10
          Replying to @AustenAllred @mslagh

          Two portfolio companies on one thread! I’m smitten ❤️ I’m trying to get my Gelt Foundation involved too with Austen. Could be good fit for you too Mike. @runvc let’s brainstorm...

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        1. PJ van Dyk‏ @vanDykPJ Mar 10
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Schools / Universities / Colleges also teach as if everyone learn in the same way!

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        1. Kyle Corbitt‏ @corbtt Mar 10
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          I’m giving a talk to a disadvantaged high school in Chile next month — what career advice would you give people with that background?

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        1. Xavier Cambar‏ @xcambar Mar 10
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          It is hard to be correct just once. It is exceptional to be correct 23 times in a row. 👏👏

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        1. Khaled Aly‏ @khaledealy Mar 10
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Amazing tweetstorm. Many of these points are even more pronounced when you see them in play in the developing world.

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        1. Matt Chaib‏ @mattchaib Mar 10
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Awesome thread. What inspired/informed this model of education? Do you see it working for education more broadly (i.e. for subjects outside of CS)? Any books that influenced you?

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        1. JM ☁ 🚀 💰‏ @cloudbasedjames Mar 13
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          You should post this on @Medium, would be a lot easier to read! Thanks for sharing though!

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        1.  👨‍💻 𝙱𝚕𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚆𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚑  🤦‍♂️ 🐶‏ @b_t_walsh Mar 12
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          This is an awesome thread, and I completely agree on the message as to why our system is broken, but how can one show others that there are better non-traditional alternatives without sounding a bit like a charlatan?

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        2. ely with machine‏ @mwhitney_atx Mar 12
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          17, 7, 5, & ...4 ❕ 🔑 🔊 :-$ 🎯 📌

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        3. ely with machine‏ @mwhitney_atx Mar 12
          Replying to @mwhitney_atx @AustenAllred

          *the other 17. 😂

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        1. ᵖᵍᵉᵖᵖˢ‏ @pgepps Mar 12
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          I think I disagree, either in analysis or in implied response, with a few--but this was highly interesting and informative. Thank you!

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        1. JC‏ @jcampbell_05 Mar 11
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Universities actually hold people back in the uk

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        1. Dr. CubedreamerXX‏ @cubedreamer Mar 10
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          I spent my career in higher ed. Many of these are fair. I will add that faculty are strongly motivated not to change and improve, because the system heavily rewards those with tenure and not innovators.

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        1. Susanna Williams‏ @SusannaDW Mar 10
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        1. seл‏ @selwun Mar 10
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Most of these points sadly make much more sense if you think of those institutions as perpetuators of elite privilege.

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