Today’s students don’t like to study in silence. A new kind of internet radio known as “lo-fi hip-hop” or “chillhop” is helping students relax and concentrate, writes Luke Winkie on Vice. The most popular channel, ChilledCow, features a studious anime girl “sitting in a picturesque Miyazaki bedroom, writing revisions into her notebook, or reading a newspaper with a hot cup of coffee, or simply staring out of a lonely window on a rainy day,” writes Winkie. “A very particular,

The other day, Dana Goldstein’s article “Why Kids Can’t Write” (accompanied by an ironically distracting animated gif) appeared in the New York Times. She describes the work of Judith C. Hochman, founder of The Writing Revolution, which, according to its website, “brings proven strategies to underserved schools that enable students to improve their writing skills, become better readers, speak more coherently, and elevate their thinking in all content areas”–through extensive