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Today is a sad day.About an hour ago we held a company all-hands where I announced the hard decision that we are laying off 65 Lambda School employees as part

The high level is ISAs are very, very hard to make work. We designed them to be *incredibly* student-friendly. In their current form a school has to be executing nearly

This is a tweetstorm about things that have surprised me having started a school, coming from a non-educational background 1. Students’ brains are broken by our existing system. We’ve been

Yesterday a Twitter account shared screenshots from the archives of a blog I wrote almost 10 years ago. I sent a note to Lambda Staff yesterday, but I want to

I spent a lot of last night looking at the history of major riots in the United States and what happened afterwards.Riots are *undeniably* followed by more/faster/stronger change than most

Alternate headline:The New York Times is going to start collecting user data and selling it to advertisers (instead of throwing someone else under the bus for doing it for them)

In 1971 tuition, room and board at the average US university was $18,140 (in today’s dollars). Today it’s $48,150.Almost all of the increase in spending has gone to huge administrative