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The Parental Substrate

Psychological and Cultural Conditions Underlying Ill-Equipped Parenting Introduction The Misassigned Accountability Thesis establishes that responsibility for educational outcomes is systematically assigned to institutions that do not control the conditions necessary for instruction, while those who do control those conditions remain insulated from scrutiny. That paper demonstrates that this misalignment is not accidental. It is structurally […]

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Education: Ill-Equipped Parenting Part I

Capacity Failure, Structural Avoidance, and the Upstream Limits of Schooling Introduction Public debate around educational failure is dominated by downstream analysis. Schools are evaluated, teachers are scrutinized, curricula are revised, and assessments are recalibrated. Far less attention is paid to the upstream site where learning capacity is first produced: the household. When the household is […]

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