Articles About education
Productive Failure: Why Solving It Wrong First Makes the Lesson Stick
The best experiment against this method tested ten-year-olds. The meta-analysis for it says the effect reverses at that age. Neither side cites the other on it.
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23 Aug
Competition and Social Comparison: What Grading on a Curve Does to Learning
Festinger said people prefer an objective standard and compare themselves to others only when none exists. A curve removes it. That is the problem.
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23 Aug
The Pygmalion Effect: What a Teacher Believes Before Meeting You
A teacher's expectation moves a child most in the first days of term and almost not at all by the end of the month. That timing is the finding nobody quotes.
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22 Aug
Can AI Replace Human Tutors
The research on AI as a human tutor replacement split in 2025, hinging on something neither side expected: not the technology itself, but how it is designed.
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19 May