K 12 Education
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8 statements about K 12 Education, every show
Emanuel: Illiteracy causes kids to effectively drop out in third grade
“You know when kids drop out of college, David? Third grade. That's when they start dropping out, and when you have 50% of your kids not reading at grade level, college cost is not your problem.”
Chase Koch: Pre-COVID, only 20% of families wanted alternative education
“Prior to COVID, roughly 20% of families were open to a new model of education.”
Government fails when acting as both regulator and provider in K-12
“You can regulate outputs rather than inputs in the system, and so, you know, I've been very favorable to having the government try to get out of service, being the service provider in K-II, right? That, you know, the government doesn't do a great job of, Being…”
Liemandt: Traditional education leaves kids entirely unskilled for an AI world
“If we spend 10 years and educate kids the way we've been educating for a hundred years, those kids are gonna go into an AI world and have no skills that matter.”
Liemandt: Two-hour tablet learning will render six-hour traditional classrooms obsolete
“Once there's this tablet and it's two hours a day, what is your education system? Cause it's coming. How do we want our kids to spend their day? Right. And what does society want to say? This is where kids should spend their day because there's no point in hav…”
Fryer: K-12 education matters more than workplace regulation for racial equality
“Well, their results would say, look, if 80% of the effect is happening before people ever hit the market, that means we need to spend more time in K through 12 education.”
Milken: US Added Decade of Schooling by 1960, Now Ranks 31st
“Between 1870 and 1960,
The United States added one year of formal schooling every decade, and by 1960, the U.S. Was the most educated country in the world by two years more than any other country.
Since then, other countries have caught us and passed it, and s…”
Boyle: COVID exposed both how and what K-12 students learn
“I think we're seeing, and I think every person with children right now is seeing this, that like there is a Huge change happening in K through 12 education because of COVID. And the two things that I think have really changed are parents are now aware of how t…”