Textbooks do a better job than 90% of teachers, and that's not a dig at teachers. I spend more time, by far, figuring out how to keep student attention than thinking about the material itself.
I'd be way more excited about getting 6 of my students to start reading and understanding textbooks than getting all 60 to pass. OTOH, my bosses would be pretty pissed...
IIRC studies show one-on-one attention is worth 2 standard deviations in test scores and a good teacher is worth 1 standard deviation. (Not coincidentally home schoolers have about one standard deviation of advantage).
Khanmigo doesn't have to be as good as a teacher to provide an advantage to the student.
> (Not coincidentally home schoolers have about one standard deviation of advantage).
Citation required as this is heavily dependent upon the purpose of the home schooling and the resources of the parents.
Anecdata: My cousin was not doing well in 4th grade. So, they pulled her out and her grandmother taught her for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, every single day.
By the time she came back to school in 5th grade she was doing extremely well and hyper motivated to never go through that experience again. :)
She was, however, the exception, not the rule. So much so that a lot of teachers complimented her and her family on the outcome. Her family had no agenda other than "fix her education". Most homeschoolers do not bring to bear that amount of resource and attention, and they have quite a bit poorer results.
> AI does a better job than prob 90% of the teachers.
AI is better funded than probably 99.9% of teachers, so ...
Ahem. Go sit in a class sometime before spouting that kind of unsubstantiated claptrap.
Like anything with a distribution, some teachers are subpar. However, 90+% of teachers are trying very hard. They have too many students. They have too few resources. Many of them are fight against bad home lives of the students. And, through it all, they have a bunch of bureaucrats promulgating the latest and greatest bullshit that never works.
We know what works. Small classes (<15 students) with two teachers. This has been documented over and over and over. Nobody wants to pay for it.
My daughter was in highly rated school in NoVa some teachers would pretty much just put on youtube and be done with it. Now in CA again highly rated school just really sad especially compared to the school she was in Ireland. I am not even focusing on teachers that actually don't know the subject they are teaching. I mean teachers that will go into conspiracy theories or just blatantly say I am not in the mood so just basically do whatever.
