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COVID learning loss, like every other moral panic, misses the forest for the trees. The problem is not students, teachers or parents; the problem is the education system.

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just wanted to note that it's owen glyn-williams speaking from 24:06 to 25:16 and not gil morejon--morejon then speaks from 25:24 onward. and also, will paris is the one who says "even if you don't get your money's worth, work them like dogs!" at 25:19. our apologies for the mistake, and thank you all for the support!

Bibliography

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The National Commission on Excellence in Education (1983). “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform”. http://edreform.com/wp-content/upload...

Zoe Bee (2021). “Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains”.    • Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is ...  

Mario Mabrucco (2021). ““Learning Loss” Is A Dangerous Myth”.   / learning-loss-is-a-dangerous-myth  

Reed, D. K., Aloe, A. M., Park, S., and Reeger, A. J. (2021) “Exploring the summer reading effect through visual analysis of multiple datasets”. Journal of Research in Reading, Vol. 44, pp. 597–616. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12357

Kuhfeld, Megan, James Soland, Beth Tarasawa, Angela Johnson, Erik Ruzek, and Jing Liu.
(2020). “Projecting the potential impacts of COVID-19 school closures on academic achievement.
(EdWorkingPaper: 20-226)”. Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University:
https://doi.org/10.26300/cdrv-yw05 *

Emma Dorn, Bryan Hancock, Jimmy Sarakatsannis, and Ellen Viruleg (2020). “COVID-19 and student learning in the United States: The hurt could last a lifetime”. McKinsey & Company. https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKi... *

Mark Schneider, Kumar Garg (2020). “Operation Reverse the Loss, Redux”. Institute of Education Sciences. https://ies.ed.gov/director/remarks/1... *

* The studies by Annenberg Brown University and McKinsey & Company, as well as “Operation Reverse the Loss” by Institute of Education Sciences, are re-examined in the “‘Learning Loss’ Handbook”.

What’s Left of Philosophy, Episode 74. “Time and Work Discipline with E. P. Thompson”. https://open.spotify.com/episode/77Kk...

Wesleyan Methodist Sunday Schools (York, England) (1833). “Rules for the government, superintendence and teaching of the Wesleyan Methodist Sunday Schools, York”. https://books.google.cl/books?id=-chi...

Flora Carr (2018). “What It's Like to Study at the Strictest School in Britain”. Time. https://time.com/5232857/michaela-bri...

Karl Marx (1867). “Capital, Volume I”. Not actually Zendaya, sorry :(

Zoe Bee (2023). “In Defense of Inefficiency”.    • In Defense of Inefficiency  

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1911). “Principles of Scientific Management”

Antonio Gramsci (1929-1935). “Prison Notebooks”

Gert Biesta (2014). “The Beautiful Risk of Education”

Ivan Illich (1971). “Deschooling Society”

Herbert Gintis (1972). “Towards a Political Economy of Education: A Radical Critique of Ivan Illich’s ‘Deschooling Society’”. https://www.umass.edu/preferen/gintis...

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Paulo Freire (1968). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”.

music:

Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 10 in E-flat major, K. 365/316a II. Andante, recording by NOVA Community Chorus

Bach, The Musical Offering, BWV 1079 III. Sonata a 3, recording by European Archive

Holberg, Suite, Op.40 - 4. Air (For Recorder Ensemble - Papalin), recording by Papalin

Chopin, Nocturne in B flat major, Op. 9 no. 1, recording by Eduardo Viñuela

plantcham - kaleidoscope

00:00 The “learning loss” discourse
04:10 Endel
05:07 “She’s not loving it as much”
12:09 “The problem is being invented”
23:18 We don’t need no education
30:05 “Class of work”
39:04 “Process and substance”
47:20 “Reflective Participation”