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1yr ago
Honestly? Yes. 40% is lower than I would have hoped.
While reading will improve with practice, and language skills will improve with age and exposure to language, my intuition is that math and science skills don’t just magically increase due to the passage of time.
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1yr ago
A few weeks ago I found this article shared on twitter, with a reference that 4-day school weeks were bad for kids. I though this was interesting, so I read the actual paper and was surprised to find this quote
For context, in fifth grade, student achievement is estimated to improve about 0.40 SD over the course of the academic year (Bloom et al., 2008), and schools only account for around 40% of these achievement gains (Chingos, Whitehurst, & Gallaher, 2015; Konstantopolus & Hedges, 2008; Luyten et al., 2017).
Can someone please tell me I’m wrong in my interpretation of this? It looks to me like studies show that, at least in 5th grade, the majority of academic improvement is not due to schooling.
Can you please connect the dots from “punishing people for trusting bogus information” to “ensuring government officials are trustworthy”? If the officials were misleading people, then they are the ones who should be punished, not the victim.
Imagine a police officer who writes tickets for speed limit violations but claims that the person caught speeding is signing a ‘warning form’ or something. The person then doesn’t show up in court, as they had no reason to believe that they needed to, and is later thrown in jail. The fix for that situation is not to tell people they shouldn’t trust cops, just like the fix in FL isn’t to tell people that they can’t trust county clerks.
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