what I read (week of august 21)

Readings on education and technology

My reading this week is split into two categories:

• Education (with some thoughts on Biden’s student loan bill)
• Technology

Education

• Incentive based programs to incentivize reduce the attrition rate of effective school teachers (WSJ)
• Interesting company x school partnership I mentioned in my essay but too political for classrooms (NYT)
• Biden Loan Relief Bill passed³, preserving the power and pockets of universities while not solving the problem for the groups who need it most and worsening economic conditions. This is a classic example of American signaling vs. root fix solutions.
• Teacher interview on what’s being taught in history today² (NYT)
• DeSantis revises curriculum requirements in Florida (NYT)
• Biden ships legislation for instant publication of publicly funded research (NYT)
• De Blasio has 96,000 students enrolled in his universal pre-kindergarten program and is heading to Harvard to work on public policy and health. (NYT)
• UMBC is excelling at providing rigorous and diverse STEM exp. to students. $1.2B on construction for 120 biotech labs and cybersecurity companies (NYT)
• Top-rated jobs by generation according to Glassdoor (Twitter)
• 37% of college degrees have negative ROI (Twitter)
• All-in Podcast Episode 93 (Youtube)

Technology

• Ukraine using VR to train pilots on specs and flying exp. of an A-10 jet (TIME)
• Using electric signals vs. drugs/medication to increase short-term/long-term memory by a month (Verge)
• Chip stacking using EIMB (pack two chips together) and Foerveers (stack chips vertically, like pancakes) to find the best combination of chips w/highest processing speed (CNET)
• Changes to VR form factor bring holographic, 3D experience to users (PC Gamer)
• Hyundai IONIQ 5 Review (Marques Brownlee)
• Apple employees fighting corp. executives on returning to work (ARS-tech)
• Reflections on time at YC (chrisfrantz.com)
• Temperature vaccines need to be kept at to retain effectiveness…