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The Young, Powerhouse Generation of Jordan Wants Educational Reform

70 percent of Jordanians are under 30–and the education system needs to catch up.
Mel Plant
Dec 30, 2016 7 min read

Your Classroom Is Making You Fail

Almost everyt traditional classroom design makes it harder to learn–yet the fixes are often simple.
Simon Parkin
Dec 27, 2016 7 min read

Charted: Who Doesn’t Go to College, and Why

Data on higher education enrollment around the world is patchy, but we can still learn important lessons
Graeme Atherton
Dec 23, 2016 5 min read

Busting the Neuromyths About How We Learn

This idea of different "learning styles" is widely believed–but there's no evidence that it's true.
Duncan Geere
Dec 20, 2016 7 min read

Young Inventors Need Role Models, Not Tax Breaks

A conversation with MIT's John Van Reenen.
Matt Locke
Dec 16, 2016 6 min read

Party in the Front

An exploration of the cultural shift that began with a leisure space of idle chatter and led to some of our...
Steven Johnson
Dec 15, 2016 11 min read

Brain Hacks for Supersonic Learning

"Neuroscience-based" methods promise to improve our cognitive abilities–but do they actually work?
Duncan Jefferies
Dec 13, 2016 9 min read

Without Technology Inside, How Can Prisoners Thrive When They Get Out?

The current promise of education in U.S. prisons.
Christine Ro
Dec 7, 2016 7 min read

How We Learn: A Reading List

A crash course on the future of education
How We Get To Next
Dec 5, 2016 5 min read

In Pursuit of Condiments

A look at how playful spices remade the map of the world.
Steven Johnson
Nov 30, 2016 9 min read
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