Paul Tough is publishing an inspiring article, Who gets to graduate?, in the New York Times Magazine this weekend. It describes work at the University of Texas at Austin to combat failure-to-graduate by lower income students with few natural external support structures for success. It showcases the use of cognitive science at scale along with randomized controlled trials "in the wild" to objectively improve student outcomes.
All of us in our industry need to get busy doing more of this kind of "learning engineering!"
