Been thinking about this all day. With limited curriculum time it's all trade-offs and there's no right answer. But this is fascinating. Why the Wars of the Roses so much more than the Napoleonic Wars? Why so little on the union?

Incredible achievement.

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This a thousand times over. I don’t want my children to be taught a “relevant” curriculum. I want them to wonder at things they wouldn’t otherwise have learned.

This is an extremely cool explainer of how an undergrad built the algorithm that has hugely improved our ability to optimise spaced repetition. domenic.me/fsrs/

🔬 'Between the ages of 11 and 14, disadvantaged pupils with the strongest SATs scores don’t make the most out of the firm academic foundations they have built' John Jerrim buff.ly/eYxYwoT

Huge admiration for Rachel Reeves for having the guts to go into politics. A 100x braver than the armchair cowards on here. Crying doesn’t show “weakness”. Don’t agree with her policies but salute her courage, not least for going into the chamber while feeling miserable

I despair for the UK. No country has better fundamentals to profit from the current global mess, so why is Oxbridge not a rival to Silicon Valley? Every one of its problems—from Heathrow to housing, from small boats to the deficit, from the NHS to the explosion in welfare—is

Government accused of trying to scrap Teach First, which has recruited over 20,000 high flying graduates into schools - my piece for The Observer observer.co.uk/news/politics/…

I need an AI inbox assistant because I can’t cope with reading everyone else’s awful AI generated emails anymore.

The difference between "fine" and "thriving" - "meeting expectations" and "excelling" is perhaps not just a problem for maths at school - but in wider society. David Thomas describes this very well (h/t to Oliver Johnson) - and I think similar patterns can be seen in many places.

Maths is geopolitics now.