Parenting
27 August 20261 min read
Screen time and learning: finding balance
The screen time debate is usually framed as hours. Hours are the least informative measure available. A child video-calling a grandparent, a child following a…
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study skills
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Parenting
27 August 20261 min read
The parent's role in a child's academic success
Parental involvement is one of the strongest predictors of how a child does at school. But the word covers two very different things, and only one of them…
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27 August 20261 min read
The science of memory and how students learn
Almost every study habit is a bet about how memory works. Most of those bets are wrong, and they are wrong in a consistent direction: they assume memory is a…
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27 August 20261 min read
Evidence-based study techniques: spacing and retrieval
Most students study by re-reading. It feels productive, because familiar text is easy to read, and that ease is mistaken for knowing. Two techniques…
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