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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...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 6, 20181 min read
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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...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 14, 20172 min read
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