This discussion reminded me why I gave up Twitter threads—it's very hard to make reasonable arguments since it's in pieces. But let me just say that Lambda won't really shake up Johns Hopkins or UNC, and the people get to talk about all this go to these kinds of institutions.
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Replying to @zeynep @BGGthoughts
They handle a few thousand students, if that, per year (not sure about exact number but that's the ballpark) and suddenly people are like "ah, that's the answer! incentive alignment!" There is an enormous amount of long-term research on social mobility/vocational training etc.
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Replying to @zeynep @BGGthoughts
The threat here is that people think it will, and pour money into a scheme like this *at scale* rather than what we should do: fund community colleges and focus on creating well-paying jobs. Other than that, as a limited, tiny coding school, it's fine.
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Replying to @zeynep @BGGthoughts
You're in Baltimore? *Just* the "Community College of Baltimore County" has about 60K students annually (many are non-credit which is often very useful skills for people like ESL). The country is littered with such institutions that do an incredible job, frankly, on little money.
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And extensive, multi-decade research on job/vocational training shows that it doesn't scale to well-paying outcomes. There's a lot of myths around why people cannot find good paying jobs, but we also have research on the reasons. It's not for lack of these types of experiments.
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