In this interview, Rodney Prescott, the CEO of ENTRY, talks to us about his experience in financial infrastructure and how ...

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In classrooms across the country, teachers are rethinking how students build reading comprehension — not just how they decode words, but how they make meaning from text. That shift is part of a larger ...

If American education understood, not superficially but to its core, the importance of knowledge and its foundational role in human cognition, teaching would look and sound very different. The ...

Child-centered individualism started the slide in American education. A recommitment to shared knowledge can ratchet it up again. E.D. Hirsch, Jr. In cultural evolution, as in mountain climbing, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when ...

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Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is full of mysteries. Who was she? What is the meaning of the enigmatic expression on her face? What methods did Leonardo use while creating the painting? Does the ...

Amid a deepening literacy crisis, there’s been a focus on how to close the achievement gap, but Natalie Wexler sees the key problem undermining the American educational system a little differently.