This podcast, Bought a Story, was produced by APM Stories and reprinted with permission.
There’s an thought about how kids be taught to learn that’s held sway in colleges for greater than a era – despite the fact that it was confirmed unsuitable by cognitive scientists many years in the past. Educating strategies based mostly on this concept could make it tougher for youngsters to learn to learn. On this new American Public Media podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this concept and the corporate that sells their work. It’s an exposé of how educators got here to imagine in one thing that isn’t true and are actually reckoning with the implications – kids harmed, cash wasted, an schooling system upended.
Episode 14: The Cuts
Schooling analysis is at a turning level in the USA. The Trump administration is slashing authorities funding for science and dismantling the Division of Schooling. We have a look at what the cuts imply for the science of studying — and the hassle to get that science into colleges.
This podcast, Bought a Story, was produced by APM Stories and reprinted with permission.
