Nerdy Dragon
Nerdy Dragon
Do the math. Follow the money.

Receipts-first essays on the education system, its incentives, and the money behind it. Math, truth, and self-sovereignty for teachers, parents, and bitcoiners.

๐ŸŽ“ education๐Ÿงฎ math๐Ÿ‰ truthโ‚ฟ bitcoin
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1 in 3 kids use i-Ready.
Zero RCTs. I checked. ๐Ÿ‰
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Post 1 ยท The Experiment

America spends 7x more on school than in 1976. Math scores haven't moved.

$1,504 per student became $17,360. Real spending doubled. NAEP math: +7 points in 45 years. Where did the money go?

Read the receipts
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Post 2 ยท The Black Box

The $800 Million Black Box: How i-Ready Hides Your Students From You

13 million kids. Zero randomized controlled trials. The formative assessment mechanism, inverted. Follow the renewals, not the outcomes.

Open the box
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Post 3 ยท The Machine

Private Equity Ate the Textbook. Then It Ate the Classroom.

Pearson, HMH, McGraw Hill: five owners in twenty years, 50-90% borrowed money, and the author was a cost center.

Follow the money
7xnominal spend since 1976
+7points on a 500-pt scale since 1978
0RCTs behind i-Ready
4publishers own 90% of higher-ed
Nerdy Dragon

Why Nerdy Dragon?

Because a dragon hoards what is real, questions what is claimed, and breathes fire on receipts that do not add up. I am Jason Dodd: math educator advocate, bitcoiner, and builder of tools that put knowledge back in the heads of teachers and parents instead of dashboards. The system runs on manufactured money and manufactured confidence. We run on math.

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