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By middle school, most kids hate going to school. They spend the day watching the clock and waiting to go home.
Brazilian high school graduates with real diplomas did slightly better than did those with fake diplomas,
A really great profile of @DStrachman and the early years of the @thielfellowship , which appropriately connects her passion for alternative education with the formation of the project,
One of the hardest things I’ve seen in education is trying to re-engage a teenager who has spent years consuming video games, social media, and YouTube slop for hours a day.
Grok details: “The PISA 2025 data supports the core numbers: B-S-J-Z (Beijing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang) scored 612 in math vs. US 463, a 149-point gap. China (those regions) rose 21 points since 2018; the US fell 15. OECD equates ~20 points to one year of learning, so the gap exceeds seven years. Top performers: 54% vs. 8%. Note this is not a full national China sample.”
We will be moral and relational nodes in the web of humanity forever. There will be endless challenges and opportunities for excellence to do surpassingly well in those roles forever. Ambitious young people will find ways to reorient themselves around ways to manifest these forms of excellence even as some previous roles become obsolete.