A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

What Works When Teaching Yourself. A Deep Look At The Autodidact.

It’s neither intelligence nor technique that holds people back from being successful self-taught learners, says Bach. It’s insecurity. Feelings of inadequacy stop curiosity, he says. In Bach’s own field of competitive thinkers, he’s learned that most people who have ambition have a terrible fear that although they’re good, they’re not good enough or smart enough. […]

Why We’re Seeing An (Affluent) Adolescent Mental Health Implosion

“The high rate of maladjustment among affluent adolescents is strikingly counterintuitive. There is a tacit assumption—even among those most affected—that education and money procure well-being, and that if children falter, they will swiftly get the appropriate services. Education and money may once have served as buffers against distress, but that is no longer the case. […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

Peter Nilsson

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