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24 alternatives to Freakonomics - How to Fix a Broken High-Schooler, in Four Easy Steps

The demand side of the education equation.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Freakonomics - How to Fix a Broken High-Schooler, in Four Easy Steps launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Freakonomics▲97
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
2015 · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics - Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late?▲65
An episode about "Early Education"
2015 · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics - Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem?▲56
If U.S teachers really are below average, what should we do?
2016 · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics Radio - Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-buck▲58
A team of economists running the numbers on the UN's goals
2015 · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics - How to Be Tim Ferriss▲88
...the kind of self-improvement ally we all want on our side
2016 · its alternatives →
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Think Like a Freak▲81
The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
2014 · its alternatives →
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I wished for a site with a growing list of math problems, I built it▲384
Good math problems are hidden inside textbooks and online documents. To keep up with all the sources in the world is hard. For someone who just wants to continuously solve problems, finding and going through all the sources feels like a hassle. I wished for a website that could just dump all the math problems available in the world out there. And if I could filter the problems by topics, that would be beautiful. teachyourselfmath is a side project that was born out of this need. At its core, it is a math PDF extraction engine. The engine has some machine learning going on behind the scenes…
2024 · teachyourselfmath.app · its alternatives →
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When To Rob a Bank▲165
New book from the authors of Freakonomics
2015 · its alternatives →
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Marketing School - Breaking Down Retargeting▲64
Turn all those people who said no into yes
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hacking Human Nature for Good▲145
How to apply behavioral economics when building products
2015 · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics: The Future (Probably) Isn’t as Scary as You Think▲55
Kevin Kelly tries to predict the inevitable future.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Make Money Online [Ep #46]: "It's The Economy, Stupid"▲61
How should you handle a shock to the economic system?
2016 · its alternatives →
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This American Life - 562: The problem we all live with▲89
First of a two-part series rethinking and reinvent education
2015 · its alternatives →
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Tell Me Something I Don’t Know▲56
A new trivia-like series from the Freakonomics folks
2016 · its alternatives →
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Viralnomics▲68
How to Get People to Want to Talk About You
2016 · its alternatives →
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Going Deep 178 - Using IT to Fix Schools w/ Kaelon Egan▲68
Founder of AccelaSchool shares his playbook.
2017 · its alternatives →
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Process — Changing how we learn with John Lynn of Startup Institute▲60
On fixing bad education habits to help us do work we love
2016 · its alternatives →
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Ambition Today - 11: Justin Dombrowski ▲55
The Power of curiosity, history, bitcoin & education
2016 · its alternatives →
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Growth Everywhere - The Art of Learning▲55
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
2016 · its alternatives →
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ss▲85
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2019 · its alternatives →
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Quant▲133
Machine learning based mental math training.
2017 · its alternatives →
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How High School Became a Thing▲84
A new illustrated story, from Hardbound
2016 · its alternatives →
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Everything Is Bullshit▲86
A Book by Priceonomics: The greatest scams on Earth revealed
2014 · its alternatives →
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The Super School Project▲80
High school reform project from Laurene Jobs
2015 · its alternatives →

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