Great points, I agree! I guess I fell prey to the Streetlight effect there. I found this article by Robin Hanson interesting, Mason Hartman has interesting thoughts on Twitter (her most recent stuff is pretty extreme though), and there is a lot on YouTube on how the School System is broken in many ways. But despite a lot of educational reform, there are some issues that prove very hard to tackle. But perhaps there is something smart & unorthodox that can be done...
Scanning through the wikipedia article you linked, very few previous reforms focused much on student suffering, and much more on the content of the learning & performance measures for the teacher. There may be a selection effect going on here, where only ineffective reforms go through. It would be better to look at a list of failed reforms.
Also, I forgot to mention this in my above comment, but really spectacular work writing this up. I always suspected this was the case, but I didn’t know it was as cost effective as it seems.
Great points, I agree! I guess I fell prey to the Streetlight effect there. I found this article by Robin Hanson interesting, Mason Hartman has interesting thoughts on Twitter (her most recent stuff is pretty extreme though), and there is a lot on YouTube on how the School System is broken in many ways. But despite a lot of educational reform, there are some issues that prove very hard to tackle. But perhaps there is something smart & unorthodox that can be done...
Scanning through the wikipedia article you linked, very few previous reforms focused much on student suffering, and much more on the content of the learning & performance measures for the teacher. There may be a selection effect going on here, where only ineffective reforms go through. It would be better to look at a list of failed reforms.
Also, I forgot to mention this in my above comment, but really spectacular work writing this up. I always suspected this was the case, but I didn’t know it was as cost effective as it seems.