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grantpitt commented on Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped educationnext.org/hard-le... · Posted by u/grantpitt

godelski · a day ago

I'm curious, why did you make this change? The article isn't about Oregon. Plus, the claim itself is pretty disingenuous since it is including covid data, vastly exaggerating the effect[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919890

grantpitt · a day ago

I quoted from the middle of the article what I found interesting. I don't submit on here much and I just put that in the title field without thinking. I'm glad that comment provides proper context on this.

grantpitt commented on Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped educationnext.org/hard-le... · Posted by u/grantpitt

godelski · a day ago

As a reminder to everyone, here's what the guidelines say[0]

  >  Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

There are reasons to edit the title other than this quote, but this article is not one of such cases. The original title "Hard Lessons from the New NAEP Results" is meaningful enough. Changing it has made it clickbait.

I'm also a little surprised that more people aren't talking about it and that it hasn't been changed. There's definitely a culture shift happening in HN...

If you've never read the guidelines, now is a great time. Seriously, it isn't that long and captures why many of us come to HN over other sites.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

grantpitt · a day ago

Sorry, my mistake. Thanks for the reminder. I don't think I can change it after 2 hrs.

grantpitt commented on Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped educationnext.org/hard-le... · Posted by u/grantpitt

kbelder · a day ago

Oregon is mentioned as an example of the general decline through the US. The article isn't really about Oregon specifically:

    Consider Oregon. Had it merely kept pace with inflation, it would have
    increased school spending by about 35 percent from 2013 to 2023. In
    actuality, it raised spending by 80 percent. Over the same period, math
    and reading performance tanked, with math posting a remarkable 16-point
    decline—the equivalent of 1.5 grade levels. Oregon is spending much more
    and achieving much less.

I think that Oregon teacher salaries have gone up quite a bit more than the national average in the last 10 years, less so in the last couple.

My youngest child is just starting high school at the moment, and for the last several years much of math education seems to have been farmed out to really crappy software and short video clips running on chromebooks. She'd really be suffering without parental intervention.

grantpitt · a day ago

Yeah, the article links the source where every state can be viewed: https://edunomicslab.org/roi-over-time/

grantpitt commented on Claude Opus 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

GodelNumbering · 2 months ago

Makes it sound like a one trick pony

grantpitt · 2 months ago

well, it's a big trick

grantpitt commented on Claude Opus 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

GodelNumbering · 2 months ago

The fact that the post singled out SWE-bench at the top makes the opposite impression that they probably intended.

grantpitt · 2 months ago

do say more

grantpitt commented on Show HN: Train a language model in the browser with WebGPU sequence.toys... · Posted by u/vvin

grantpitt · 3 months ago

Any application that can run in the browser, will eventually run in the browser.

grantpitt commented on Nano Banana Pro blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

evrenesat · 3 months ago

I've tried to repaint the exterior of my house. More than 20 times with very detailed prompts. I even tried to optimize it with Claude. No matter what, every time it added one, two or three extra windows to the same wall.

grantpitt · 3 months ago

Huh, can you share a link? I tried here: https://gemini.google.com/share/e753745dfc5d