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educationrealist
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educationrealist is a personal blog at educationrealist.wordpress.com about politics. Since 2013, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this education blog for posts on school discipline and expulsion law, gifted-student separation, and growth mindset. Commenters usually quote or cite its posts as sources for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
No Dewey-eyed dreamers here
Most-linked posts?
- /2013/10/31/noahpinion-on-iq-or-maybe-just-no-knowledge/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-17
What Hacker News says?
Can someone explain to me what claim Dr. Dweck has demonstrated that is both novel and true? I have read a bunch of articles about her work, but it all seems to me like she has framed "growth mindset" against a strawman. It seems blindingly obvious to me that ability in most fields is a function of both genes and effort. Genes shape how fast you improve with effort, and where you plateau. Genes shape the curve of th…
Comment linking /2013/10/31/noahpinion-on-iq-or-maybe-just-no-knowledge/
on “What You Believe Affects What You Achieve”Submitted What you probably don't know about the Gaokao as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt’s not just a zero-sum game. Extra costs include the salaries of civil servants who administer the funds, including the many people whose job is to print out a report and put it in a drawer where nobody will see it, and the blatant cronyism in public contract awards. Extra benefits include the infrastructure, technologies, and knowledge that we develop, that would not have existed because no businessman would have…
Comment linking /2012/09/07/the-fallacy-at-the-heart-of-all-reform/
on “Norway: 37% of new vehicles sold in January were electric”It’s not the schools permitting it, it’s the justice system making getting rid of disruptive students impossible. https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/public-sch... > Wonder what allows a school to at least consider permanent expulsion? The student has to be convicted of: > murder drug dealing aggravated assault rape possession of a deadly weapon > But expulsion can be permanent if and only if he or she…
Comment linking /2019/08/06/public-school-is-a-property-right-the-connor-betts-case/
on “Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement”That’s illegal. https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/public-sch... > Wonder what allows a school to at least consider permanent expulsion? The student has to be convicted of: > murder drug dealing aggravated assault rape possession of a deadly weapon > But expulsion can be permanent if and only if he or she is over 16 or older. And of course, forget all those criteria for the disability manifestation ex…
Comment linking /2019/08/06/public-school-is-a-property-right-the-connor-betts-case/
on “Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement”That factoid is somewhere between misleading and false. https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/teacher-qu...
Comment linking /2012/01/15/teacher-quality-pseudofacts-part-ii/
on “In Wayzata, Minnesota, a school spies on its students”> Wonder what allows a school to at least consider permanent expulsion? The student has to be convicted of: > murder > drug dealing > aggravated assault > rape > possession of a deadly weapon https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2019/08/06/public-sch...
Comment linking /2019/08/06/public-school-is-a-property-right-the-connor-betts-case/
on “Abolish High School (2015)”You don't need to deport people; make it tough to earn a living and they'll move somewhere else — that's what brought them here in the first place. Arizona cracked down on illegal aliens a while back and their intensive-English courses enrollment dropped by 80,000 students. While intensive-English course enrollment is an imperfect proxy for "illegal" (some illegals don't need it anymore and some born here still do),…
Comment linking /2016/03/16/arizonas-experience-and-the-tale-it-tells/
on “Adding up the cost of uncontrolled immigration”"Tre, who was in a math support class of mine last year, had phenomenal retention of any concrete fact he learned. Total inability to grasp abstract concepts. Couldn’t estimate. Couldn’t isolate x. Couldn’t figure out what the slope of a line was. I’d ask him things like “if you rolled a ball down this line, which one would go faster?” and he’d struggle for minutes just to figure out what I meant. If it wasn’t real,…
Comment linking /2013/10/31/noahpinion-on-iq-or-maybe-just-no-knowledge/
on “Career opportunities”For somewhat less idealistic blog posts on education, Educationrealist is worth reading: http://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/2012-in-rev... http://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/most-popula...
Comment linking /2013/05/06/most-popular-posts-and-favorites/
on “There Is No Homework In Finland”
