A lot of talk about Lambda School today, and most of it I'll ignore. One I'm going to respond to - that Lambda School is "creaming" - removing the best students from other schools and locking them into ISAs. This is a tweetstorm full of student stories, so buckle up.
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred
Do Stanford or Harvard ever get accused of creaming?
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Of course they do, more than anyone else! There's a good amount of research on all this. A lot of media attention goes to a few ivies that educate very small numbers—though, strikingly, that small number wields a lot of power. But the issue is: what would work at scale?
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Arguably, the biggest differential impact the Ivies have is networking, alumni associations, boost from label and future affirmative action to children—not that they don't teach well but the students are already mostly top-notch and would learn fine in most reasonable colleges.
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Community colleges are the example to see what needs to happen *at scale* to help students who've been denied opportunities for one reason or another. Harvard wouldn't scale either—no prestige/privilege/exclusivity at scale. This is well-worn territory in ed research.
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