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Education

Many schools don’t think students can read full novels anymore. That’s a tragedy | Margaret Sullivan

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Increasingly, teens are given only parts of books, and they often read not in print but on school-issued laptops

Reading fiction has been such a joy for me that my heart broke a little to learn recently that many schools no longer assign full books to high school students.

Rather, teens are given excerpts of books, and they often read them not in print but on school-issued laptops, according to...

It’s not easy being an English northerner surrounded by southerners. Here’s how we survive | Robyn Vinter

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

University undergraduates are forming northern societies, but in other circumstances we find different ways to be ourselves

Of course they weren’t being mean, but each time my university friends jokingly echoed my Leeds-accented “no” with a noise that is perhaps best approximated as “nerhhh”, I found myself undergoing elocution conditioning. Within a year, the identifying...

The Score by C Thi Nguyen review – a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life

Yesterday at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

From Duolingo to GDP, how an obsession with keeping score can subtly undermine human flourishing

Two years ago, I started learning Japanese on Duolingo. At first, the daily accrual of vocabulary was fun. Every lesson earned me experience points – a little reward that measured and reinforced my progress.

But something odd happened. Over time, my focus shifted. As I climbed the weekly...

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