To the editor: As an educator, I couldn’t agree more with Doug Lemov that learning and retaining basic facts, and creating a supportive, inclusive environment, are foundational to good pedagogy. What ...

A new study offers older adults a simple way to combat memory loss: memorization. Researchers found that seniors who engaged in an intensive period of rote learning followed by an equally long rest ...

A question confronts many professors at the start of each semester: Which of their students can grasp a subject’s underlying concepts, and which are simply adept at memorizing? Both kinds of students ...

In the evolving landscape of education, two prominent learning approaches stand out: Rote Learning and Competency-Based Learning (CBL). While both aim to impart knowledge and skills, their ...

For many Singaporean parents, “studying hard” still means doing tons of past-year papers, memorising formulas, and drilling questions repeatedly. After all, that’s how most of us survived the national ...

Public education in our country is still a highly politicized issue. Since the implementation of standardized public education, quantitative outcomes have trumped the importance of personalized and ...

ONE of the ways in which the education system enables us to treat ourselves with psychological lullabies is by way of bombarding young minds with non-stop clutter related to what great strides our ...

Thus, the future of education relies on embracing ‘Three A’s of AI’ and actively shifting from rote to root learning. By bridging academic theory with experiential learning, institutions can equip ...