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Give two groups of students the same passage. One group rereads it and walks out feeling ready; the other closes the book, struggles to recall what it said, and walks out feeling shaky. A week later the shaky group remembers far more. Learning is full of surprises like that, and so is the institution built around it. Mass schooling is only a few centuries old, yet it now shapes nearly every childhood on Earth, and people still disagree about what it is for.

Along the way you will meet Horace Mann's hope that schools could equalize a whole society, the evidence on which study habits really work, the fights over vouchers, testing and phonics as their best defenders would put them, and the struggle to get the world's children not just into classrooms but learning there. The practical payoff is that you will study smarter, read a school ranking or a gadget's promise with a skeptical eye, and be able to explain how a chatbot can make homework easier while making learning harder.

Levels

  1. 1 1. What Is School For? 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. How Mass Schooling Spread 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. How Learning Works 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Teaching and Assessment 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Inequality and Opportunity 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Great Debates: Choice, Testing and Reading 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Education Around the World 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Technology and AI in Learning 5-question quiz

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