The Failed "Hostage Theory" of Nikole Hannah-Jones

11 pointsposted 13 hours ago
by barry-cotter

8 Comments

Khaine

9 hours ago

There is also https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ on: "There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. "

EA-3167

9 hours ago

I can’t find anything on this “Center For Education Promise,” and it reads like a hit job once all of the friendly disclaimers are finished.

I’d be very interested to know what exactly this “think tank” is. Their Manifund page suggests they’re little more than three people who mostly write substack blogs.

doctorpangloss

10 hours ago

if you are interested in the topics of this article i encourage you to read https://www.potreroview.net/starr-king-one-campus-two-school... about a Mandarin immersion program in San Francisco. the issues are very complex.

readthenotes1

9 hours ago

The issues are very complex, but elementary schooling isn't.

Of course, people with motivations not entirely driven by teaching children reading, writing, and arithmetic can make things very confusing.

wredcoll

9 hours ago

Good point, morality should be entirely absent.

Maybe we can include it as an elective in highschool?

wredcoll

9 hours ago

> Almost everything about Najya’s school experience is a result not of structural inequities in society, but of a system that has every possible incentive to produce precisely the result Hannah-Jones bragged about and her daughter suffered through

Huh. This sounds like an article that's about to take a fair and balanced view of the evidence.

Sniffnoy

7 hours ago

I don't think having an opinion and summarizing it are indicators of bias.

jmye

4 hours ago

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