Learning is the master skill, the ability that allows us to realize our ambitions: succeeding in school, getting ahead at work, playing a sport or a musical instrument, speaking a second language. Yet until recently, even the experts didn’t understand how learning works. Now research in cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience is revealing the simple and surprising techniques that can help us learn to be smarter.
Annie Murphy Paul is a book author, magazine journalist, consultant and speaker who helps people understand how we learn and how we can do it better. Her latest book, How to Be Brilliant, is forthcoming from Crown.
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There’s been a lot of talk lately of college- and career-readiness for high-school graduates, notes Amanda Paulson in the Christian Science Monitor. But according to a just-released study, what community colleges actually require is less rigorous than we think—and many high school graduates aren’t meeting even those low standards: “Community colleges enroll nearly half of all college students in America, and
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Jon Hamilton has a very interesting segment on NPR about how the brain interprets language: “Just a few decades ago, many linguists thought the human brain had evolved a special module for language. It seemed plausible that our brains have some unique structure or system. After all, no animal can use language the way people can. But in the 1990s,
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The race is over. You (or your son or daughter) got into college, accepted the offer of admission, bought the sweatshirt with your school’s logo. There’s just one obstacle standing in the way: summer. A growing body of research shows that the summer before college can be a treacherous time for teenagers, poised as they are between home and high
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