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Your Review: School

This review explores how schools are primarily designed to maximize motivation rather than learning, explaining why age-graded classrooms and seemingly inefficient group learning have persisted despite numerous attempts at reform.

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Jul 4, 2025 8,460 words 437 likes 548 comments Listen · 46 min Read Read

[ACC Entry] Does The Education System Adequately Serve Advanced Students?

TracingWoodgrains and Michael Pershan analyze the effectiveness of ability grouping, acceleration, and personalization software in serving advanced students in the education system.

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Sep 4, 2018 9,387 words 0 likes 403 comments Listen · 63 min Read Read

This Week: Adversarial Collaboration Entries

Scott Alexander introduces four adversarial collaboration contest entries to be published over the week, with a subsequent reader vote to determine the $1000 prize winner.

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Sep 3, 2018 298 words 0 likes 55 comments Listen · 4 min Read Read

The GATTACA Trilogy

Scott Alexander writes two satirical sequels to GATTACA, critiquing discrimination based on epigenetics and educational background.

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Jun 19, 2018 3,565 words 0 likes 133 comments Listen · 24 min Read Read
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