Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Ever since Coursera courses became very good, only to have basically no impact on higher ed, I've come to the belief that the biggest role of formal ed is to act as a commitment device for students to actually consume the information. AI will be transformative, but AI w/o that

My previous post on LLMs for self-study has sparked considerable debate about the role of “traditional” higher education. In response to some of the comments, I want to enumerate the arguments supporting the survival of “traditional” higher education. In my next post, I will

As I told a Ghanaian friend, when I see Africans or Black Americans discuss reparations for the TAST, I await their position on reparations for the Trans Saharan Slave Trade, which continues to this day — some 2 million Africans currently enslaved throughout the Arab Muslim

Andrew King continues to fight the good fight against scientific misconduct. Andrew Gelman recently posted about his struggles to correct the record on Eccles, Ioannou, and Serafeim (2014) an enormously influential paper on the financial returns from ESG. The comments show

Kevin A. Bryan That is an interesting point. One can imagine a world where the liberal arts become something people pursue in their 50s and 60s, once they have the financial stability and the life experience to get the most out of them. An 18-year-old reading Thucydides is completing an

»Aufschlussreich ist, dass es für solche Strassengebete kaum ein Pendant in muslimischen Ländern gibt. In Riad, Doha oder Dubai würden wiederkehrende Massengebete an touristischen oder politischen Hotspots nicht als selbstverständliche religiöse Praxis, sondern als Störung der

The German “economic reform” debate is not about reforms at all. It is about tax increases. Abolishing the married couples tax allowance is a tax rise. Structural reforms would be: phasing out of pay-as-you-go pensions; ending wasteful industrial subsidiaries to clapped-out

In honor of SFO's parallel runway landing being banned because an unqualified pilot flew her helicopter into a regional jet (killing 60+ people), sharing this French Air Force data on visuomotor test performance (essentially "Keep this bullseye on the target as the simulator

NEW: The Marine Corps is scrambling to reassure military families that there will be no immigration enforcement during boot camp graduation ceremonies, officials said, after an outcry over plans for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to join security efforts at upcoming

Roma-Großfamilie wollte im Krankenhaus die Geburt eines Kindes feiern, 25 Angehörige wollten dabei gemeinsam im offenen Foyer essen. Eine Oberärztin forderte sie jedoch auf, das Gebäude zu verlassen, und alarmierte, nachdem die Familie dies nicht tat, die Polizei. Nun gibt es

As not only a Frenchman, but also a descendent of French settlers in Algeria, I think it's fine that he did that. We did kill a lot of Algerians during the war after all and it was a pretty nasty war to be honest. What annoys me is when people keep whining about it today and

This happened in the European Commission, too. And it happened fast. In 2015 you could have different opinions (though the left-maximalist opinion would generally prevail). By 2026, that’s all gone. And the next generation — the ones being hired right now — are even more

“Jo Boaler is a professor of education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, with an enormously influential body of work …. Her work got Algebra removed from middle schools across the Bay Area. It is some of the most incompetently or dishonestly conducted research I have

Let me be clear: this SICKENS me. I spent YEARS writing letters to get my interpreters in America because they SAVED OUR LIVES. One of my interpreters was a 15 year old kid. One day, we were working with the Afghan police and he went stone quiet. After we left, I asked him what

On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 800 (overwhelmingly “white heterosexual”) men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment went over the top. 68 answered roll call the next morning. Now their male descendants can’t work at NL’s only university which was named in their

Memorial University is actually being entirely and bluntly truthful here. There's nothing exceptional about this particular cluster hire. Every university in Canada has the same hiring policy, because that's the government's policy. If they accept funding for Canada Research

My entire college experience was truly about meeting ppl with leftist politics who loved the idea of class struggle as an aesthetic but were horrified to learn my dad had a ninth grade education and I was in the same class as them

Der Unterschied zwischen der aktuellen Koalition und einer Minderheitsregierung: Die SPD besetzt zahlreiche Posten und verhindert in der Regierung vernünftige Politik, was sie bei einer Unions-Minderheitsregierung nicht könnte. Gemeinsamkeit zwischen Minderheitsregierung und

A fundamental lesson from my posts these last two weeks on modernization, industrial policy, and development is that development economics should be about understanding why South Korea got rich but Bolivia did not. The current field has largely given up on that question.

In New Zealand leftists tried to introduce pay equity claims before the courts arguing that female community NGO workers should be paid the exact same as male detectives, male engineers and male air traffic controllers The government was forced to introduce emergency legislation