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Fortune
Steven Levitt

Freakonomics author: 'Objections to data science in K-12 education make no sense'

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The three-year battle over California’s new math framework has produced calamity and confusion on all fronts. As fighting raged across op-ed pages and X (formerly known asTwitter), the fog of war obscured the inescapable truth: The data revolution is here and our kids are not prepared for it. 

From ChatGPT to personal finance, nearly every decision we make in our daily lives is now dominated by data. Eight out of ten of the fastest-growing careers this year involve data science. A decade from now, it will be difficult to find any job that is not data-driven.

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