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Fixing the research-to-policy pipeline

Hypertext • 19 implied HN points • 27 Mar 24
🚌 Education Research Policy Programs Scaling
  1. Challenges in evidence-based policy include interpreting research results, dealing with luck, p-hacking, and external validity.
  2. Pre-registration of RCTs and requiring data/code sharing help combat issues like luck and p-hacking in research.
  3. Scaling effective programs poses challenges of logistics, resources, and ensuring successful reproduction in multiple settings.

Salaries, Staffing, and School Sizes

SFEDup • 58 implied HN points • 02 Jun 23
🚌 Education Staffing Salaries Compensation Programs
  1. San Francisco Unified School District employs more certificated staff per thousand students compared to most other districts in the state.
  2. San Francisco has the smallest elementary schools and highest percentage of small schools among Bay Area districts.
  3. San Francisco spends more on teacher compensation than most districts, primarily due to employing more teachers and providing benefits to retired teachers.

Want to teach repair to K-12 kids? There's a grant for that!

Fight to Repair • 19 implied HN points • 27 Aug 23
🚌 Education Grants Teaching Sustainability Resources Programs
  1. The Culture of Repair Project is offering grants of up to $10,000 to create educational programs teaching sustainable repair to K-12 students.
  2. The projects funded by the grant focus on repair education as a way to address environmental and societal challenges through changing cultural relationships with material objects and social systems.
  3. Culture of Repair emphasizes the importance of repair in fostering a circular economy and encouraging active student engagement in choosing repair practices.

Wartime and Peacetime TPM

Building Rome(s) • 9 implied HN points • 03 Jun 23
💼 Business Management Programs Decisions Leadership Success
  1. There are two types of Technical Program Manager personalities: Wartime and Peacetime.
  2. Different environments require different approaches: Wartime programs demand focus and urgency, while Peacetime programs allow for more experimentation.
  3. Wartime and Peacetime TPMs have distinct qualities: Wartime TPMs are decisive and action-oriented, while Peacetime TPMs focus on process and consensus-building.

It's hard to change people

Hypertext • 0 implied HN points • 27 Mar 24
🚌 Education Policy Economics Behavior Programs
  1. It's easier to change people's environment than to change people themselves.
  2. Many criminal justice programs aim to change preferences rather than incentives or constraints, leading to challenges in their effectiveness.
  3. Hot-spot policing is an example of an intervention that changes constraints and has shown a significant impact on crime reduction.
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