he problem with higher education today is that colleges are not transparent about their students’ academic lives, so families don’t know what their students should experience or accomplish in [...]
egardless of how you feel about screen time, The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media & Real Life by Anya Kamenetz will convince you that the effects screen time has [...]
love it when highly-regarded books bring attention to things I’ve been teaching my study skills students for years. Learn Better, Make it Stick, and Smart but Stuck are three great examples, and [...]
here are two reasons to read, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, by Daniel Pink: one is that you want to work more efficiently, and the other is that you’re curious to know where – [...]
id you know you can scan documents on your phone using Notes (iOS) or Google Drive?! Holy moly, the amount of time that knowing that five years ago would have saved me! It’s too bad my phone [...]
learning specialist I really like gave me this book as a gift, with the inscription, “The book I was waiting for for 30 years!” That’s awfully high praise coming from a lady who famously (and [...]
n general, short of moving to a foreign country, reading fiction is the fastest way to get smarter. However, if you have an immediate need to be smarter right now and only have time to read one [...]
y the time Make it Stick came out in 2014, I’d been teaching study skills based on practical applications of the science of learning for three years. From my obscure, third-floor oceanside office [...]
n the five years since I decided to start a study skills and academic coaching business based on practical applications of the science of learning, there’ve been two celebrated mainstream books [...]