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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first.

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Educators Have Some Pointed Advice For Tech Companies Building the Metaverse

ED Surge

It offers advice to tech companies that are jumping into the metaverse, with principles from learning science for how to shape the development of their products and services. This week the Brookings Institution released a policy brief titled “ A Whole New World: Education Meets the Metaverse. ”

Education 105