Why “Knowledge” is a Dirty Word in K-12 | Ashley Berner

How many times have you heard that “learning how to learn” is more important than learning something in particular? Or that skills matter more than knowledge? Or that learning something by heart suppresses student creativity?

Such ideas are commonplace in the United States. Mainstream education in the US has emphasized skills over content for more than a hundred years. Listen to Dr. Ashley Berner, Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, discuss recent scholarship on why knowledge matters, what some districts and states are doing about it, and findings from research on knowledge-building in American schools.

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