Anyone who has gone to school has done it – that repetitive style of learning known as “rote memorization." The theory behind memorizing by repetition is the more you go over a particular bit of ...

Take a nostalgic yet eye-opening look at 12 things Baby Boomers learned in school that no longer apply today. From outdated skills to forgotten lessons, see how education has evolved across ...

CHICAGO -- A new study offers older adults a simple way to combat memory loss: memorization. Researchers found that seniors who engaged in an intensive period of rote learning followed by an equally ...

In today’s educational and leadership arenas, a dangerous narrative has emerged: Self-styled “enlightened” educators disparage rote memorization as obsolete, championing critical thinking alone. Yet ...

An erudite reader, former Foreign Service officer Jack Aubert of Falls Church, Virginia, objected to a prominent feature of modern education. “Rote memorization is very useful, and it was a mistake to ...

A new study by UC Irvine neurobiology professor Michael Yassa indicates that repetition may have negative effects on memorization, at least when it comes to remembering details. A new study by UC ...

A RECENT PIECE in Newsweek prompts an editor to reflect on that subversive phrase “rote memorization.” Reporter Paul Mooney uses the term–correctly, for once–in his story on the revival of Confucian ...

The popular press seems to attribute an apparent rise in academic cheating to the advent of remote learning in the COVID pandemic. And yet, research shows that cheating is not necessarily more ...