Two things. 1. Nice that a professor at a prestigious Canadian school knows about Carmel. 2. Carmel is remarkably cost efficient in delivering high quality education. Obviously the degree of difficulty in urban schools is much higher, but Carmel is still impressive here.

It is significant that the proto-typical low-information NYC voter (people who rely on the NYT solely for their news and opinion and by doing that think they are well-informed even though they are basically anti-informed) is now starting to start to start to start to grasp that underfunding is not a problem in the NYC school system. At. all.

This essay is going to inspire a thousand "I told you so's" from conservatives. But that reaction is a mistake. It's all too common for people to undertake idealistic and even morally laudably actions - adopting a child out of foster care, becoming a foreign missionary, joining an intentional community, a dad joining the military - that turn into a nightmare. Undoubtedly, a degree of naïveté, and failure to reckon with the risks is at some level involved in these choices. But where would be be a society if people chose not to take some of these risks? There's even something un-American about the idea of making every decisions about avoiding risks for your children. Much of the unease about the pure striver upbringing so many kids get these days is related to that. Whereas we see something classically American in the foolishness of Charles Ingalls in the Little House books.

Carmel's PorchFest is a nice local music event- sort of a buffet of bands and styles, all staged on local houses' porches. Lots of growth over last couple years! (Did I beat @aaron_renn to porchfestpoasting?)

NYT: In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? - A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

NYT: How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose - Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.

"The more decisive factor in the recent leasing boom is job growth — this year, New York eclipsed San Francisco in the number of tech jobs for the first time. Many AI companies provide financial and legal services and want to be close to clients here."

"According to a study from 2017, a third of the nation’s flagships—all highly ranked and thus popular with out-of-staters—turned away some of their own state’s residents to make room for higher-paying students from elsewhere."

"Out-of-state flagships became even more attractive after the Great Recession of 2008, as families with financial means started to question the value of paying full freight at more obscure private colleges."

"The conditions were almost ideal for flagships to ride a wave of out-of-state students starting in the early two-thousands. High-school-graduation numbers spiked, but élite private colleges didn’t expand their incoming classes to meet the increase in demand."

"Alabama also courted applicants from bedroom communities around New York; Washington, D.C.; Seattle; Boston; and eventually Chicago, where Alabama’s sticker price looked downright reasonable compared with the tuition at pricey private colleges and more expensive public options"

"[Alabama] targeted high schools in prosperous suburbs around Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, and Los Angeles, where the university knew that getting accepted to in-state flagships was very difficult for all but the top students."

The New Yorker: How long will the great student swap last? - For years, public universities have aggressively recruited out-of-state and international students, charging them higher tuition. But those pipelines may be drying up.