Within the battle over studying instruction, a U.S. president faces off towards influential authors

This podcast, Offered a Story, was produced by APM Reviews and reprinted with permission.

There’s an concept about how youngsters study to learn that’s held sway in colleges for greater than a technology – regardless that it was confirmed fallacious by cognitive scientists a long time in the past. Educating strategies based mostly on this concept could make it more durable for youngsters to discover ways 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 consider in one thing that isn’t true and are actually reckoning with the implications – youngsters harmed, cash wasted, an training system upended.