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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: Mastery By Tony Wagner & Ulrik Juul Christensen, Read By Graham Winton
Description: A radical new approach to education for learners of any age
How much information is forgotten almost immediately after it is taught? How many students graduate from high school unprepared for careers where lifelong learning is essential to succeed? These problems stem from an educational system that uses time spent in a classroom and the results of standardized, multiple-choice tests as proxies for actual understanding. Educators Tony Wagner and Ulrik Juul Christensen call for a radical new system of learning, where students progress individually when they demonstrate that they can use what they have learned—no matter how long it ta...