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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. This story was published in partnership with The Moonshot Catalog.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

Two teachers, seated at U-shaped tables on opposite ends of the classroom, were going through a reading exercise with four kids each, helping them sound out letters. In a KIPP kindergarten classroom this January, the air was filled with a musical hum. Aaaaaaaa ,” the kids chanted. Shhhhhhhh.”.