Braus Blog

A New and Practical Solution to Improving Education

How to be kind and virtuous in complex times

A no-BS guide to what to buy when starting off oil painting ($150–$200)

A How-To Guide for Inequity and Exploitation

I was sick of it, so I made a better one

Higher education fails in one major way: they don’t train students in 21st century job-ready hard skills. Here’s how to fix that.

Could Medicare for All, Mass Transit, and Housing together be a better plan than Yang’s Universal Basic Income?

College should work for everyone.

The untold truth of how college hurts the poor and doesn’t help the wealthy, and how new, innovative colleges are the solution.

Evidence-based medicine has been in use for decades, and evidence-based education could learn a lot from .

Medicare For All would be the best option — but in its absence, we could start with phone calls to nurses.

How at Make School we design a school that maximizes learning and minimizes burnout.

Scott Wiener made waves last year when he proposed SB827 — what if there was a better solution for all sides?

A New Take on Defending Liberal Education

Hard-won tips for how to talk productively about texts with a group of people

The short answer seems to be — “No” — but it is complicated.

A new English translation by Adam Braus of the Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta — On Kindness.

Rethinking “scaffolding” — one of the most fundamental and unexamined parts of teaching.

Forget writing that 25 page book proposal

Fascinating new research on how to build interest in learners

Or how I stopped worrying and started to love extrinsic motivation

At Make School we use an innovative (and ancient) form of feedback — the Don Rag.

Why a Universal Basic Income (UBI) or Universal Social Security (USS) requires single-payor universal public healthcare.

By not growing smart, San Francisco is condemning itself to its own nightmare: slowly becoming Manhattan, but adopting zoning strategies…