David Labaree @DLabaree
Emeritus Stanford professor. History & sociology of US education. Latest book is The Emergent Genius of American Higher Ed. Blog at https://t.co/0xbH5pzHYI. davidlabaree.com Palo Alto, CA Joined November 2016-
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Commas matter substack.com/@joeljmiller/n…
Actually, education "reform" dwindled because its proposed mechanisms don't work - merit pay is a mess, charter schools have no statistical advantage over public, private school vouchers are a disaster, VAMs are incoherent and disparaged by actual mathematicians, etc etc. And the reason for all of this is that a) large-scale group differences are caused by social and economic factors that happen far above the heads of teachers and schools, and b) individual academic metrics are dominantly the product of an individual's level of intrinsic academic talent, which itself is largely genetic. Schools and teachers control less than 10% of the variation in student outcomes. The evidence for that is overwhelming. So of course people are less enthused about ed reform than they once were; ed reform failed on its own terms. substack.com/@freddiedeboer…
One of the principal attractions of academia, the thing that made me want to get a Ph.D. and pursue the academic track, was always the freedom to run my own shit. More and more over the last few years, though, I have a feeling of very much not being left to do my own thing. There’s a kind of officious proceduralism that has crept into everything, to the point where it’s even beginning to penetrate to what and how I teach being dictated in part by other people. At which point it starts to seem less like I’ve got the ideal job that I wanted all those years ago, and more like I’m working an ordinary email job for 1/3rd the pay. chadorzel.substack.com/p/the-psycholo…
The world runs on fossil fuels; renewables are mostly not what you think: 80.5% of all global energy (not just electricity) from fossil fuels Renewables 14.5% most from biomass (8.4%) Solar + wind just 2.9% Latest global data for 2024, IEA: iea.org/data-and-stati…
A Twitter account called Pessimists Archive, run by Louis Anslow, collects such cases. He recently pointed out that in 2026 “the New York Times cites seriously academics who say AI might end the world”, and in 1881 “the New York Times cites seriously academics who say telegraphy might end the world”. rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/matt-ridley-…
My new blog post is a piece I wrote about the harm that educational research has inflicted over the years. Given a track record of making things worse for school and society, educational researchers would do well to heed the wisdom in the Hippocratic Oath. If our work often fails to make things better, we should at least strive to do no harm. davidlabaree.com
My new blog post is a piece I wrote about the harm that educational research has inflicted over the years. Given a track record of making things worse for school and society, educational researchers would do well to heed the wisdom in the Hippocratic Oath. If our work often fails to make things better, we should at least strive to do no harm. davidlabaree.com
Which six-figure careers are set to grow the fastest over the next decade? 💼 Created in partnership with @TerzoHQ, this graphic ranks high-paying U.S. jobs by projected employment growth from 2025 to 2035. visualcapitalist.com/sp/ter02-high-… #ter02
The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion A landmark paper examined highway construction across major U.S. metro areas and found that vehicle miles traveled increase in almost exact proportion to new lane-miles added. That means a 10% capacity increase produces roughly a 10% increase in driving. Any relief from new lanes tends to evaporate within three to five years. The finding has since been nicknamed the Fundamental Law of Road Congestion. open.substack.com/pub/jadrian/p/…
Opinion | Higher Ed's Middle-Manager Problem It’s time to get serious about administrative bloat. Administrative and support payroll more than doubled at 81 universities and more than tripled at 13. At 76 institutions, growth in administration exceeded both core-revenue and instructional-salary growth by more than 20 percentage points. chronicle.com/article/higher…
Healthcare is the future. visualcapitalist.com/sp/ter02-high-…
AI will not make mathematicians obsolete Many young mathematicians I have talked to recently appear to be terrified about the trend. Given the spectacular achievements of AI, they wonder whether they, as research mathematicians, will still be needed. On the present evidence I would tell them: a categorical yes. What these systems have shown is a formidable ability to find a needle once someone else has built the haystack and pointed to it. Choosing which haystacks are worth building — which questions matter, and what a real answer would even look like — is still our work, and it is the more interesting half. And AI is, after all, a triumph of mathematics — its neural networks are built out of linear algebra, calculus and probability. There are many risks associated with the uses and misuses of AI. The extinction of mathematics as a human endeavor is not among them. inference-review.com/article/ai-wil…
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The Upper Class ticket bought five specific things. And once you see them clearly on a plane, you start seeing them everywhere. In your house. In your week. In the small decisions you make about your Tuesdays. They are Time. Convenience. Calm. Delight. Comfort. These are, as far as I can tell, the five things money is genuinely worth spending on. danhaylett.substack.com/p/the-five-thi…
In the late 1800s, immigrants made up roughly 13% to 15% of the US population. Through the early 20th century, this share fell dramatically, reaching a low of just under 5% in 1970. After that, the share rose steadily, reaching around 15% by 2024, approximately the same as the 19th-century peak. substack.com/@ourworldindat…
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