The Ledger, every show
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Caplan: Standard credentials and seniority do not predict actual teacher effectiveness
“The main thing known is none of, like, the obvious social science measures of teacher quality predict teacher quality. So, having credentials from better schools, or having more credentials, or even more experience, none of the standard things that are in the …”
Caplan: 1971 Griggs ruling restricts degree-based hiring as much as IQ tests
“If you look at the original case, it actually said that not only is IQ testing legally suspect, but educational credential hiring legally suspect.”
Caplan: National education spending boosts GDP far less than personal earnings
“The main result is that the measured effect of national education on national income is much smaller than the effect of personal education on personal income, which fits very nicely with the signaling story and does not fit really with any other story out ther…”
Caplan: People fail to apply knowledge across subjects without explicit prompting
“People are very bad at applying what they've learned. Especially without external prompting, so there's a lot of experimental evidence where you'll teach, for example, either math and science or science and math, and you'll sort of randomly assign which order …”