School System
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
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Liemandt: Third-grade C students have a 90% chance of staying C students
“If you're a C student in third grade, there's like a 90% chance you'll be a C student for the rest of your life, right? It just, and that's not, there's no inherent brain chemistry around that. That's just a systems issue, right? The way we design school.”
Liemandt: EdTech fails because school systems ignore academic outcomes and products are poor
“The problem with EdTech today and why it's failed and nobody wants to invest in it is you're trying to sell to a school system who actually doesn't care about academic outcomes back to the bundle. And you can't change the metrics that matter. And so you can't …”
Garry Tan: Modern school systems are designed to strip children of agency
“We send them to a school system that is not designed for agency. It is literally designed to take agency away from our children.”
Sacks: The public school system is the primary cause of structural racism
“Look, I mean, if you're going to define structural racism as conditions that, that trap people of color in poverty across generations, which seems like a pretty fair definition, then you have to say the number one cause of structural racism is the school syste…”
Howey: Schools naturally bias toward creating classrooms of future teachers
“The people in charge of school or all people ended up teaching
And if you think about what they're trying to generate a whole classroom full of teachers. They want us all have well-rounded knowledge and be really good at school stuff. And that's because the p…”