“Study Skills” Ought to Include an Understanding of Memory

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"Study Skills" Ought to Include an Understanding of Memory
      

Schooling in the United States---especially beginning around the sixth grade---requires that students do a certain amount of memorization. Sometimes the demands on memory are overt and narrow, as when students are given a spelling list to learn, and other times the memory demands are implicit and broader, as when students are asked to compare a poem they are reading in class to one that they read a week ago.

So by the time students get to college you'd think committing things to memory would be old stuff.

Think again ...
         

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