…the amount of time Americans spend reading for pleasure has decreased, on average, 3% each year for the past 20 years. In 2004, when I graduated high school, 28% of Americans read for pleasure. I think I had a vague awareness of this at the time, and prior to reading this article if you had asked me how often people read for pleasure I would have guessed somewhere in that range. By 2023, however, that number had dropped to 16%.
Taking exams is often associated with discomfort and anxiety in students. Students will feel nervous as these are high-stake performance situations. Exams require students to commit information to memory and to obtain an in-depth understanding of taught concepts...
Today is (American) Thanksgiving so we wanted to take the opportunity to thank our community! We are so grateful for the continued support, encouragement, and contributions of our community…
How many boxes can you hold? It is clearly a trick question. The answer, like so many things in our complex world of education is, of course, it depends. It depends on several factors that match up quite nicely with the same questions of what we can hold in working memory.
If you read our blog, even sporadically, you are almost certainly aware that investigations into evidence-based learning strategies have been ongoing for quite some time. In fact, as we near the end of 2025, I’m realizing that Ebbinghaus’ work on spaced practice …
… I think of those conversations with my dad often. About the enthusiasm and curiosity they inspired in me. And the stark contrast in how I felt about technology and the future then to how I feel about technology and the future now. All of which was highlighted for me recently when I tapped my phone - my little doom machine - awake to send a message, only to receive a Google News recommendation about an article in Forbes magazine entitled, “When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?”
