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David Labaree
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Emeritus Stanford professor. History & sociology of US education. Last books Ironies of Schooling and Being a Scholar. Love good writing. Blog at http://davidlabaree.com.
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One Horror of Slavery That Until Recently Could Not Be Told www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...
Opinion | One Horror of Slavery That Until Recently Could Not Be Told
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November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Why smart people believe stupidity things

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Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things
Intelligence is not rationality
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November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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When I’m Sick of Doomscrolling, I Turn to This Poem www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This Poem About Monet’s “Water Lilies” Reflects on the Powers and Limits of Art
“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you why he loves it.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Pity the Poor Harvard Undergrads
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Pity the Poor Harvard Undergrads
Crybabies on the Charles, or How the Meritocrats Mistook an Easy A for Genuine Accomplishment
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November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Dbvid Brooks: Hey, Lefties! Trump Has Stolen Your Game.
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Opinion | Hey, Lefties! Trump Has Stolen Your Game.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Opinion | Toxic femininity and the rise of cancel culture
Female aggression may have fueled the Great Awokening but it won’t end civilization.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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NEPC just posted my essay Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Research as its blog post of the day.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Nostalgia's not what it used to be
Or, how I got screwed
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October 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With David Labaree About Navigating Education's Competing Goals - NEPC Talks Education
<p>University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña interviews David Labaree about the tensions shaping American education and how recent developments in AI and school choice po...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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The Great Reinvention of Childhood
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The Great Reinvention of Childhood
How American childhood was radically reengineered over the past 70 years—and not in ways that serve children
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October 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Superintelligence Isn’t Enough
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Superintelligence Isn’t Enough
AI has many answers—but it can’t by itself build a new society.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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October 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints
If the economy's single pillar goes down, Trump's presidency will be seen as a disaster.
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October 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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In praise of frivolous research
Let 1000 flowers bloom
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October 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
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October 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Change in cereal production, yield, land use and population
All figures are indexed to the start year of the timeline. This means the first year of the time-series is given the value zero.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Does the news reflect what we die from?
What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?
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October 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Most of us are wrong about how the world has changed — especially those who are pessimistic about the future
The majority of people believe that the share of people in extreme poverty is rising. The opposite is true.
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October 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Dave Barry's fitness test
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Physical Fitness
Shape the hell up, America.
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October 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Scholar/ Practitioner's thoughts on education
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September 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Alfie Kohn: Education for What?
To talk about curriculum (what to teach) or pedagogy (how to teach) is to bump up against the question of why to teach. What is the purpose of education? And why do so few people address this topic di...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Trump's UN General Assembly Speech, by the numbers
Unsurprisingly, nearly half of Donald Trump’s 2025 U.N. speech wasn’t about the world at all — it was about himself — a staggering 46% of his 424 sentences, d…
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September 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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September 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Colleges are not all the same
Let’s stop with the stereotypes
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September 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM