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Can you actually build implementation capacity (across states) in K-12 education?

My notes on a paper 10 years in the making.

Oct 30 •

Even More Pronatalist Research Showing Local Governments Can Boost Birth Rates (Study: 1,741 Cities in Japan!)

Tokyo and Osaka show identical urban fertility penalties, but Nagoya escaped through aggressive municipal child welfare spending

Oct 27 •

Why are mothers in the developed world are having less kids?

Mothers worldwide are slowly (not rapidly) but persistently having fewer children

Oct 17 •

The Pentagon’s Best Schools & Safest Nuclear Program with the Expanse’s “Dream of Mars”

The United States' hidden cache of state capacity inside the Department of Defense

Oct 14 •

All-Natural Geoengineering with Frank Herbert's Dune

Can We Terraform the Earth Using Life Itself?

Oct 10 •

Is Pronatalist Research More Interesting Than the Discourse?

What do trains and flexible schedules have in common? They both increase fertility

Oct 9 •

How to Build a Better Suburb: YIMBY Lessons from Disney, Houten, Japan, and Carmel

A thought experiment for mass scaling and integration of YIMBYism

Oct 7 •

California Needs to Learn from Houston & Dallas; Especially about Homelessness

Houston and Dallas reduced street homelessness dramatically not by being more compassionate or cruel than California, but by building working systems

Oct 3 •

The Mississippi Miracle Doesn't Scale; Building Implementation Capacity Does

Why the same reformers who failed with Common Core will fail again

Oct 2 •

Young Man, There's (Not) A Place You Can Go: The Death of YMCA Housing & What Japanese Internet Cafés Can Teach Us

YMCA used to have everything for young men to enjoy; You could hang out with all the boys

Sep 24 •

Textbook: What Actually Works in K-12 Education

Documenting Local Success in Fragmented Education System

Sep 5 •

2/5 - Why economic (especially energy) shocks permanently lower fertility rates & total maternal rates (TMR)?

We still feeling the impact of the 70s Oil Crisis and the Great Recession today

Aug 27 •

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