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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 6, 20181 min read
Facts — not thinking skills — fight ‘truth decay’
“Critical thinking” is all the rage in schools, counters writes Chester E. Finn, Jr. in Education Next. “As construed and applied” in our...
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 14, 20172 min read
False memories: It wasn’t all rote pre-Core
“Now, what I want is Facts,” said Thomas Gradgrind in Dickens’ Hard Times. “Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are...
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