The Education Wars

The Education Wars is a series of articles at Rounding the Earth, written by edutech entrepreneur Mathew Crawford.

• Why the Star Trek Future Isn't What You Think: Humans vs. Artificial Intelligence is a talk that summarizes a view that a few variables could improve student performance by 3 to 5 standard deviations (45 to 75 IQ points)

• A Demonstrable Solution to the Poverty Deficit in Education
  • Discussion of the Kingston Experiment

• The R(evolution) Begins Here and Now includes a 76 minute education talk given by Mathew Crawford.

• Specialization is Anti-Education

Meditate comes from the Latin meditari, defined by thinking, contemplation, thought, idea, planning, devising, preparation, intention, exercise, practice, study, rehearsal, custom, and habit.

• Meditation and the Art of War

• Dyslexia With Learning

• The R(evolution) Begins Here and Now includes a 76 minute education talk given by Mathew Crawford.
• Meditation and the Art of War includes a history of the current “standard” model of education, back to its Prussian origins.
• My Math Education Interview
• Why the Star Trek Future Isn't What You Think: Humans vs. Artificial Intelligence is a talk that summarizes a view that a few variables could improve student performance by 3 to 5 standard deviations (45 to 75 IQ points)

• Why the Star Trek Future Isn't What You Think: Humans vs. Artificial Intelligence is a talk that summarizes a view that a few variables could improve student performance by 3 to 5 standard deviations (45 to 75 IQ points)
• The Greatest Variable in Education: Benjamin Bloom Revisited
• Specialization is Anti-Education
• A Demonstrable Solution to the Poverty Deficit in Education
• My Math Education Interview
• My Last Math Student (For Now)
• Emails Among Educators Outside of the Institution

• COVID-19 Research Pop Quiz (And Then Some?)
• Organizing Resistance Through Education: Operation Uplift

MetaPrep is Mathew Crawford's community-oriented education project. The MetaPrep Locals Community is public interface.

• Building an Education Community: Rebooting the MetaPrep Project

• Who Needs an Elite University?

• Organizing Resistance Through Education: Operation Uplift

• Remain Calm and Keep Learning
  • Includes a lesson on the computation of false positive rates.
• A Lesson in Understanding Scatter Plots Over Time
• My Math Education Interview

Great educators are both effective and wise. These are some of the educators who influenced Mathew Crawford.

• John Taylor Gatto website
• Dr. Maria Montessori
• Paul Lockhart - A Mathematician's Lament