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Investor in education & employment pathways @ Achieve Partners & University Ventures, @forbes 30under30, prior life in ✈️ @mckinsey, current life in Brooklyn 🚇

Manhattan, NY
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    Cassidy Leventhal‏ @cassidylev 11 Oct 2021

    Cassidy Leventhal Retweeted Eliza Shapiro

    If this was a strategy developed by wealthy private school parents to reduce competition for fancy school spots from those pesky poor, smart kids, it couldn’t have been better planned. The tragedy is, there are issues with NYC’s G&T models, but there were also viable solutions…https://twitter.com/elizashapiro/status/1446435627495530496 …

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    Eliza ShapiroVerified account @elizashapiro
    BREAKING: NYC to eliminate gifted + talented classes over the next 5 yrs, major change and likely BdB's last big decision as mayor. Kids now enrolled in gifted programs will stay in them, but there will be no more separate gifted classes for incoming kids https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/nyregion/gifted-talented-nyc-schools.html …
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      2. Cassidy Leventhal‏ @cassidylev 11 Oct 2021

        To name just a few… increasing access to gifted program entrance tests for low-income/URM students (who are less likely to receive them) improving tests to minimize impact of paid “prep” resources developing + disseminating free prep resources for low income/URM students

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      3. Cassidy Leventhal‏ @cassidylev 11 Oct 2021

        reserving slots within gifted programs for low income/URM students directing additional resources to increasing gifted school/class sizes directing resources to improving general education programs

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      4. Cassidy Leventhal‏ @cassidylev 11 Oct 2021

        Cassidy Leventhal Retweeted Cassidy Leventhal

        improving top school admissions process at later ages (K-12/higher ed) to ensure gifted programs aren’t the only funnel (there are 1,000 solutions, but the most obvious is to kill preferences for legacies, athletes, and children of donors/faculty)https://twitter.com/cassidylev/status/1295340784749891584?s=21 …

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        Cassidy Leventhal @cassidylev
        Reminder that any conversation about diversity (racial, socioeconomic, etc.) and selection methods in universities is incomplete without mentioning the “affirmative action” currently granted to: - Legacies - Athletics - Children of donors and faculty https://twitter.com/cassidylev/status/1217101291249377281 …
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      5. Cassidy Leventhal‏ @cassidylev 11 Oct 2021

        Cassidy Leventhal Retweeted Cassidy Leventhal

        …And a million other ways to actually improve the labyrinthian education system that exists today, instead of tearing down a small piece of that system that successfully educates low-income children. But as usual, the Utopian Dilemma prevails.https://twitter.com/cassidylev/status/1400085426463985666?s=21 …

        Cassidy Leventhal added,

        Cassidy Leventhal @cassidylev
        The education industry has a BIG problem. I call it the Utopian Dilemma. Take college for example. What we’re doing today isn’t working for MOST people: 4 in 10 students don’t graduate (but often do have debt), and 4 in 10 grads are working jobs that don’t require degrees... 🧵 pic.twitter.com/y1OAEczxvg
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      6. Cassidy Leventhal‏ @cassidylev 11 Oct 2021

        I should add: there are meaningful first and second order effects to gifted programs, good and bad. Reduction in resources to general classes is a real problem, as is tendency of wealthy parents to hack selection systems. My point is not that these programs are perfect…

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      7. Cassidy Leventhal‏ @cassidylev 11 Oct 2021

        it’s that making them BETTER, instead of destroying them, is the right path for the kids these programs mean to help. This includes conducting better research into various program configurations with realistic data sets/comps to better map good/bad impacts + refine accordingly

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      8. Cassidy Leventhal‏ @cassidylev 11 Oct 2021

        Cassidy Leventhal Retweeted Cassidy Leventhal

        And to close with something I say all too often about our education system….https://twitter.com/cassidylev/status/1400106122829250562?s=21 …

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        And sure, that path — the one to real opportunity — is hard, long, and gets less clicks. But it will also help the people we’re claiming to help, instead of just FEELING like we’re helping. So, you choose: a better world that exists, or a perfect world that doesn’t? pic.twitter.com/sBf2pPoho1
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      9. Cassidy Leventhal‏ @cassidylev 14 Oct 2021

        Cassidy Leventhal Retweeted Alan Cole

        Good take on this from economic standpointhttps://twitter.com/AlanMCole/status/1447582229702578178 …

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        Alan ColeVerified account @AlanMCole
        I think a lot of people are under the misapprehension that accelerated learning programs are just about labeling the kids we think are the most "special." But it's actually pretty straightforwardly about efficiency. https://fullstackeconomics.com/save-the-magnet-schools/ … pic.twitter.com/IJQJonANvL
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      1. Cassidy Leventhal‏ @cassidylev 22 Nov 2021

        Cassidy Leventhal Retweeted Sar Haribhakti

        Different pathway to the middle class destroyed, same energyhttps://twitter.com/sarthakgh/status/1462603341004001282 …

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        Sar Haribhakti @sarthakgh
        Congratulations on systematically excluding against smart hard working poor kids from one of the best public universities in the country https://twitter.com/TeresaWatanabe/status/1461732826739396611 …
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