Michael Lanford

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Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.

I'm halfway through this article and I have two questions that are not a critique of the article.

The first: why don't we openly talk about these kinds of approaches as what they actually are - experimenting on children with little oversight and the potential to cause real lasting harm?

Maria Ressa won a Nobel prize in 2021 for her efforts to support free expression against the authoritarian regime of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

Anyone who has read newspapers on microfilm, perused letters in archives, leafed through diaries, scrapbooks and photo albums, knows that even if these were to be digitized, the serendipity of making connections in this analogue way can not readily be reproduced through keyword searches./8

Can’t stand this toy because who in their right mind would tell a kid “let’s sing!” and then start with a minor triad in second inversion

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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