A puzzling gender gap has emerged in America’s learning loss crisis
Girls’ scores have fallen faster than boys’ on major tests, and the gap has not gone away. The latest NAEP results make the pattern impossible to dismiss.
The risks of telling teachers to focus on “critical thinking” skills
Domain-specific knowledge and facts are crucial for problem-solving and critical thinking, learning scientists say. But teachers aren’t always hearing that message, including at a recent training put on by the American Federation of Teachers’ AI Academy.
