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Student’s Don’t Know What They Don’t Know – And It Causes Stress
As high school gets more serious and college admissions become more competitive, it’s not a surprise that there’s an...
Making Good Learning
The Best Lecture - The difference between sitting in a lecture and actively interacting with content is the difference...
The past, present and future of learning
The Past of Learning There was once a time when people were smarter and more skilled because they simply had to be. They had a multifaceted intelligence that they needed in order to remember everything they needed to survive. People had to recognize the languages of...
Never assume a kid is not trying
The first thing we do when a student is doing consistently poorly in school should never be to chalk said student’s failures up to being a bad or unintelligent student. The first thing we should do should be to question the system. How is it treating this child? Is...
The Myth of the Bad Test Taker
The “bad test taker” is a comforting myth. The myth says that in a situation where a student does poorly on a test, provided they have the practical skill-set needed to succeed and attend a school providing exactly what it is supposed to provide, then the kid is just...