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Why You Cannot Believe Your Way Into Learning
For most people, the hardest thing to understand about learning is that the strategies which pay off in the long run often feel like failure in the moment, while the ones that produce no lasting benefit often feel like success in the presen...
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For roughly a decade, the phrase “science of reading” has dominated literacy discourse in the United States, the United Kingdom, and most Anglophone education systems. The phrase refers to a large body of converging evidence about how the b...
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New research on retrieval practice shows it stalls under high cognitive load. Generic thinking skills again fail to transfer to related tasks. Removing a cognitive tool, it turns out, hurts more than adding it ever helped. And the most cite...
Spandrels of the Mind: The Case Against Humanlike AI
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The Death of the University Degree
For 133 years, Princeton University upheld an honour code that allowed students to take exams unsupervised, trusted to write a simple pledge on their answer sheets affirming they had not cheated. In May 2026, the faculty voted to end the tr...
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