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Beyond Pavlov's Perfect Student
A response to critics of our earlier piece, arguing that behaviorist models drawn from Pavlov, Skinner, and Ebbinghaus are too narrow a foundation for understanding how real students learn in real classrooms.
2023 »
There is No Such Thing As “The Science of Learning”
An argument that "The Science of Learning" flattens the complexity of cognition and schooling by reducing learning to a narrow set of testable, memory-focused practices that ignore the embodied, social, and emotional realities of kids.
2023