The American Scholar

LETTERS

Classroom Dilemmas

am a fan of cognitive science. In fact, I wrote the first history of the field—The (1985). But Natalie Wexler (“Why So Many Kids Struggle to Learn,” Winter 2022) is naïve if she thinks that training in cognitive science is the “silver bullet” to improve the learning of American young people. It’s a technological solution to problems that are much broader and more challenging. Students

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