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From the outside, American schooling is weird

g-w1 Hey, so I wanted to start this dialogue because we were talking on Discord about the secondary school systems and college admission processes in the US vs NZ, and some of the differences were very surprising to me. I think that it may be illuminating to fellow Americans to...

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From the outside, American schooling is weird

Mar 28, 2024•24

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From the outside, American schooling is weird

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g-w1

Hey, so I wanted to start this dialogue because we were talking on Discord about the secondary school systems and college admission processes in the US vs NZ, and some of the differences were very surprising to me.

I think that it may be illuminating to fellow Americans to see the variation in pedagogy. Let's start off with grades. In America, the way school works is that you sit in class and then have projects and tests that go into a gradebook. Roughly speaking, each assignment has a max points you can earn. Your final grade for a subject is $\sum_{i} \frac{{earned}_{i}}{{max possible}_{i}}$ . Every school has a different way of doing the grading though. Some

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All of what you've described can be considered texts but that's usually in the context of critique/analysis. I see content as the preferable term when not engaging in critique/analysis though.

Short-form is a winning strategy when the content can be made short-form and be no/little worse off for it. Do you have any examples of content which you think would be better condensed into a top 10 list?