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The Past

The invention of the gifted child

The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.

Lecturer standing in front of a classroom, teaching college admissions students seated at desks with sunlight casting shadows.

Starts With A Bang

Colleges should include standardized testing in admissions

There are many problems with relying on SAT and ACT scores for college admissions. But removing them entirely creates less opportunity.

A woman in a field enjoying digital reading.

The Present

The loss of deep reading: How digital texts impact kids’ comprehension skills

From Hogwarts to hashtags, kids’ reading habits have changed drastically in recent decades — but data suggests cause for hope.

Two men in suits standing next to each other, discussing fraud.

Fraud abounds — meet the three kinds of people stealing your money

Fraud is a $5 trillion “industry.” But not all its perpetrators look alike. Kelly Richmond Pope, a professor of accounting, breaks down who commits fraud — and why.

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A woman jotting down her thoughts in a notebook using ChatGPT.

Thinking

Students use calculators to do math. Let them use ChatGPT to write

Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.

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