Dolly Parton's Imagination Library(imaginationlibrary.com)
605 points by jumploops | 101 comments
Homepage of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, a nonprofit that mails free books monthly to children from birth to age five in five countries.
Education on Hacker News
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AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework(dailycal.org)
197 points by romanhn | 305 comments
Daily Californian article reporting that UC Berkeley Fields medalist Richard Borcherds stopped grading homework because widespread student AI use made it pointless.
Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?(chronicle.com)
18 points by Anon84 | 36 comments
Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay by Allison Stanger arguing analytical academic writing should be judged by quality rather than whether AI helped write it.
Academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems like Wikipedia(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
162 points by jruohonen | 155 comments
LSE Impact Blog post by Helen Choi arguing that academics have a duty to defend open knowledge systems such as Wikipedia.
What shall I teach my son?(stevekrouse.com)
442 points by Curiositry | 642 comments
Steve Krouse's personal essay reflecting on what to teach his unborn son and the purpose of education in the age of AGI, drawing on Neil Postman's The End of Education.
Eigenmoon: linear algebra puzzles by moonlight(eigenmoon.vercel.app)
61 points by jessicarumbelow | 15 comments
Eigenmoon is a browser-based puzzle game teaching linear algebra concepts through moonlit, minimalist interactive levels.
Show HN: Open-source early-reading reader with phonics help(github.com)
15 points by zoozla | 2 comments
GitHub repository for YaraReads, an open-source early-reader app where kids tap words to hear phonemes, with MCP support for importing books via AI assistants.
Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers(cs.cmu.edu)
58 points by azhenley | 69 comments
CMU School of Computer Science news article announcing a Microsoft partnership to train early career software engineers.
Credit where credit is due(thefloatingcontinent.com)
70 points by evakhoury | 45 comments
Blog post about Dartmouth provost Santiago Schnell's Washington Post op-ed on AI cheating, which AI detector Pangram flagged as likely LLM-written, raising questions of authorship credit.
Now That Information Is Free, What's a College Campus For?(commonedge.org)
12 points by surprisetalk | 13 comments
A Common Edge essay asking what role physical college campuses and their architecture play now that information is freely available.
Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school(lemonde.fr)
61 points by janisz | 39 comments
Le Monde article reporting that Denmark plans to let teachers use physical force, such as holding or removing disruptive students, starting August 2027.
The Controversial Class That MIT Is Paying a Professor Not to Teach(nytimes.com)
10 points by mikhael | 0 comments
New York Times article about MIT paying professor Michel DeGraff not to teach a controversial course related to Palestine.
Calculus with Julia(jverzani.github.io)
249 points by subset | 49 comments
Online open textbook by John Verzani teaching calculus using the Julia programming language, shown at its preface page.
What should we tell our students?(terrytao.wordpress.com)
129 points by sajid | 173 comments
A Terry Tao blog post titled "What should we tell our students?"; the capture shows only a browser-check interstitial instead of the content.
Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
687 points by lukehandcool | 211 comments
A Tell HN post about a person who has funded a rural Tanzanian girl's education for ten years and now runs a small 501(c)(3), the Tanzania Education Project.
AI tutoring with Khanmigo in a two-year school experiment(edworkingpapers.com)
57 points by bryan0 | 42 comments
An Annenberg EdWorkingPapers research paper page on a two-year school experiment evaluating AI tutoring with Khan Academy's Khanmigo.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/5/991c219c-d7cd-49e0-9547-06310c048275.jpg)
Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video](youtube.com)
22 points by ptrhvns | 39 comments
A YouTube video from The Atlantic's The Permanent Questions in which David Brooks interviews Jonathan Haidt about AI's impact on education.
Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws(scimigo.com)
27 points by davidwshao | 10 comments
First lesson of SciMigo's Build with Python course, a browser-based beginner Python course using Pyodide where code draws pictures on a canvas.
Incentives in Academic Research(msoos.org)
43 points by zero_k | 39 comments
A blog post on the SAT solving and cryptography blog 'Wonderings of a SAT geek' discussing how incentives shape behavior in academic research.
Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children(teachyourkids.substack.com)
92 points by actfrench | 47 comments
A Substack post by Maya Sissoko offering parents a guide to rejection sensitivity in gifted and twice-exceptional children, covering connection and friendships.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (2023)](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/4/0ece93c4-08a4-4a65-a31b-97d586312ec1.jpg)
Math's pedagogical curse – Grant Sanderson [video] (2023)(youtube.com)
62 points by bobajeff | 30 comments
YouTube video of Grant Sanderson's JPBM Communications Award lecture at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings, titled "Math's pedagogical curse."
CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective(turkeyland.net)
92 points by ArchAndStarch | 68 comments
Instructor Jeff Turkstra's retrospective on an AI/LLM cheating incident in his Spring 2026 CS 240 Programming in C course and how it was handled.
Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin(cmu.edu)
27 points by Guyadou | 22 comments
Carnegie Mellon University news announcement of a $3 billion gift from Citadel founder Ken Griffin, described as pioneering a new model.
Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose(lathoa.ai)
43 points by thanouil1411 | 20 comments
Landing page for Lathoa, a math app for kids aged 10-14 where an AI companion named Errol makes deliberate mistakes for children to find and explain.
Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan(tokyodev.com)
126 points by pwim | 41 comments
A TokyoDev article by Marco Cognetta on completing a computer science PhD at Tokyo Institute of Technology on a MEXT scholarship while working at Google.
Mathematical Origami(mathigon.org)
108 points by signa11 | 22 comments
Mathigon page on mathematical origami, showing how to fold Platonic solids and other polyhedra with 3D models and explanations.
Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?(theeducatorsroom.com)
99 points by obscurette | 161 comments
An opinion article on The Educator's Room arguing that violence against teachers has become normalized and treated as part of the job rather than a safety crisis.
Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe(economist.com)
168 points by vinni2 | 313 comments
An Economist leader article arguing that declining student test scores represent a slow-moving catastrophe; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
The Failed "Hostage Theory" of Nikole Hannah-Jones(educationprogress.org)
7 points by barry-cotter | 1 comments
A Substack essay by Jack Despain Zhou criticizing Nikole Hannah-Jones's argument that parents should keep children in public schools to improve them.
Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)(cs.cmu.edu)
54 points by nicoraga | 20 comments
Manuel Blum's talk notes at CMU offering advice to beginning graduate students on reading, studying, research, and writing during a PhD.
How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments(thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com)
268 points by azhenley | 257 comments
Christian Kästner's Substack post describing how he redesigned course assessments after AI agents could complete all his homework assignments.
Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?
10 points by shriy-singh | 13 comments
Ask HN thread asking readers which research paper abstracts they found most memorable and why, to inspire writing a better paper intro.
Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'(afr.com)
103 points by theanonymousone | 170 comments
Australian Financial Review article reporting that a tutoring company advised parents to save money and use AI tools instead of paid tutoring.
Reflections on 1,000 Days of Math(gmays.com)
78 points by gmays | 34 comments
Gabe Mays' blog post reflecting on reaching a 1,000-day streak of studying math daily, with a habit-tracker heatmap.
AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study(economist.com)
363 points by dash2 | 360 comments
Economist graphic-detail article on a study finding AI use raised students' homework scores but was followed by lower exam scores; the page loaded as an access-restricted block.
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments(mezha.net)
541 points by theanonymousone | 249 comments
News article reporting that Denmark will require high school students to orally defend their written assignments to counter AI-assisted cheating.
Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
780 points by nicholasjbs | 99 comments
Recurse Center cofounder's HN post marking its 15th anniversary, recounting its YC origins, pivot to a programming retreat, and HN's role in its growth.
A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese(jivx.com)
354 points by momentmaker | 70 comments
Densha, a web app that renders a voxel 3D Tokyo synced to Japan time where users ride the Yamanote line loop while studying Japanese sentences.
Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown(english.elpais.com)
481 points by geox | 625 comments
El País article about Brown University economist Roberto Serrano denouncing widespread AI-enabled cheating on an exam and calling for debate on AI in higher education.
Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school(reuters.com)
749 points by ilreb | 516 comments
Reuters article about Norway imposing a near ban on AI use in elementary schools; the captured page shows a bot verification captcha.
How many of the 170k English words do you know?(vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app)
444 points by abnry | 528 comments
VocabOwl is a web quiz that estimates how many of 171,476 English words you know via a stratified 100-question test.
Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes(dailycal.org)
712 points by littlexsparkee | 673 comments
Daily Californian news article reporting rising failing grades in UC Berkeley computer science classes, which professors link to greater AI usage and weaker math skills.
AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford(github.com)
480 points by prakashqwerty | 148 comments
A CLAUDE.md file in Stanford CS336's assignment repository giving guidelines for AI coding assistants working with students on the course.
Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM(latimes.com)
596 points by brandonb | 794 comments
LA Times article reporting that University of California faculty, citing severe math deficits, are demanding a return to SAT requirements for STEM applicants.
A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline(president.mit.edu)
597 points by dmayo | 662 comments
Transcript of a video message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth about research funding and the talent pipeline, published by MIT's Office of the President.
Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent(dailyprincetonian.com)
341 points by bookofjoe | 513 comments
Daily Princetonian news article reporting that Princeton faculty voted to require proctoring for in-person exams, ending 133 years of unproctored exams under the honor code.
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work(sentinelcolorado.com)
449 points by gnabgib | 407 comments
Sentinel Colorado article about a college instructor who has students use typewriters to prevent AI-written assignments and teach life lessons.
Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom(undark.org)
839 points by novaRom | 406 comments
Undark article on Sweden shifting classrooms away from digital screens and back to printed books.
Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching(sciencedirect.com)
326 points by jdthedisciple | 338 comments
A ScienceDirect journal article on how student physical attractiveness relates to grades under in-person versus remote teaching; the page showed a captcha.
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026(missing.csail.mit.edu)
409 points by anishathalye | 118 comments
Homepage of MIT's Missing Semester course (IAP 2026), teaching CS students practical tools like the shell, editors, version control, and agentic coding.
![Screenshot of gwern.net: Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/2/24/d868f1e7-9915-4679-8bb0-f6d116950404.jpg)
Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf](gwern.net)
456 points by gurjeet | 278 comments
A 1984 academic paper by M. A. (Ken) Clements giving a biographical account of Terence Tao's mathematical precociousness as a young child and its educational implications.
Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself(jesperordrup.github.io)
394 points by jesperordrup | 125 comments
A web reference guide to singing techniques covering vocal registers, styles, effects, embellishments and dynamics, with examples, how-to tips and tutorial links.
Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear(lend-me-your-ears.specr.net)
490 points by vunderba | 163 comments
Lend Me Your Ears is a browser-based musical ear training memory game meant to teach playing piano by ear.
![Screenshot of courses.csail.mit.edu: Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/1/9/ae2aa14e-4a6c-4954-86ba-c8b6fc82ba70.jpg)
Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf](courses.csail.mit.edu)
366 points by vismit2000 | 62 comments
PDF of the 2018 revision of the MIT textbook Mathematics for Computer Science by Eric Lehman, F. Thomson Leighton, and Albert R. Meyer.
Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system(borretti.me)
355 points by thomascountz | 156 comments
Blog post introducing hashcards, a local-first spaced repetition app that stores flashcards as plain Markdown files and schedules reviews with FSRS.
Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?(reason.com)
691 points by delichon | 901 comments
Reason article by Emma Camp questioning why 38 percent of Stanford students report having a disability, arguing elite college admits rarely have learning disabilities.
Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science(beej.us)
332 points by amruthreddi | 126 comments
Landing page for Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science, a free work-in-progress beta guide offered in several HTML formats.
Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost(nbcnews.com)
417 points by jnord | 681 comments
NBC News article on its poll finding two-thirds of registered voters no longer think a four-year college degree is worth the cost, a reversal from a dozen years ago.
Learning music with Strudel(terryds.notion.site)
535 points by terryds | 127 comments
A free, open-source Notion-hosted course teaching beginners music production and theory in the browser using the Strudel live-coding environment.
Implications of AI to schools(twitter.com)
322 points by bilsbie | 386 comments
An X post by Andrej Karpathy sharing points from a school board talk on AI in schools, arguing AI use in homework is undetectable and grading should shift to in-class work.
NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again(gothamist.com)
382 points by hrldcpr | 279 comments
Gothamist news article reporting that New York's school smartphone ban has made school lunchrooms noisy and social again.
Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study(phys.org)
361 points by strict9 | 223 comments
Phys.org news article on a University of Virginia national study finding public Montessori preschool programs improve early learning outcomes at lower cost.
Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)(cs.stanford.edu)
603 points by peterkshultz | 181 comments
Andrej Karpathy's 2013 guide offering advice to undergraduate students on doing well in courses, covering sleep, studying habits, and exam preparation.
An illustrated introduction to linear algebra(ducktyped.org)
410 points by egonschiele | 78 comments
Chapter 1 of Aditya Bhargava's illustrated introduction to linear algebra on Duck Typed, covering Gaussian elimination and the row vs column picture.
You’re a slow thinker. Now what?(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)
488 points by sebg | 201 comments
A Substack essay by Casual Physics Enjoyer reflecting on being a slow thinker and how to lean into that thinking style.
US High school students' scores fall in reading and math(apnews.com)
496 points by bikenaga | 964 comments
AP News article reporting that US 12th-grade students' NAEP math and reading scores declined, continuing a yearslong downward trend.
The Little Book of Linear Algebra(github.com)
419 points by scapbi | 104 comments
GitHub repository hosting The Little Book of Linear Algebra, a short free textbook available as PDF, EPUB, and LaTeX source.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/9/1/7a1f28b0-80d7-4112-b7e9-5d322158a2c2.jpg)
Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video](youtube.com)
397 points by tosh | 72 comments
YouTube video of MIT professor Patrick Winston's 2018 lecture on how to speak and present effectively; the capture shows a reCAPTCHA page instead.
“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps(smithsonianmag.com)
319 points by arbesman | 188 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on the history of the children's TV series Reading Rainbow, created to combat summer reading slumps and bridge the literacy gap.
Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine(solarshades.club)
432 points by notarobot123 | 601 comments
A Substack essay by a teacher about the challenges of teaching when students use AI tools like ChatGPT to complete homework.
Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS(github.com)
466 points by saikatsg | 139 comments
GitHub repository for Open Source Society University's free self-taught computer science curriculum built from online courses.
Spaced repetition systems have gotten better(domenic.me)
905 points by domenicd | 469 comments
Domenic Denicola's blog post explaining how spaced repetition systems have improved, focusing on the FSRS scheduling algorithm.
Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools(yle.fi)
683 points by freetonik | 415 comments
Yle News article reporting that Finland has banned smartphones in schools, allowing pupil use only with teacher permission in some circumstances.
LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo(librelingo.app)
736 points by hyperific | 329 comments
Homepage of LibreLingo, an experimental community-driven, free and open-source language-learning platform positioned as a Duolingo alternative.
Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news(app.fluentsubs.com)
436 points by ph4evers | 164 comments
FluentSubs app page offering Duolingo-style listening exercises built from real-world videos like news, starting with a language selection screen.
The average college student today(hilariusbookbinder.substack.com)
563 points by Jyaif | 680 comments
A Substack essay by a longtime professor describing how the average college student today differs from students of past decades.
A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up(captrice.io)
434 points by adityaathalye | 131 comments
Landing page for Captrice, a free browser-based guitar practice app with a smart metronome that tracks metrics for speed, endurance, and accuracy.
How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)(merriam-webster.com)
584 points by Stratoscope | 437 comments
Merriam-Webster grammar guide explaining how to use em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens.
Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023)(apnews.com)
396 points by redbell | 265 comments
AP News article on Sweden shifting its schools away from heavy digital device use back toward printed books and handwriting practice.
Take the pedals off the bike(fortressofdoors.com)
458 points by bemmu | 422 comments
Blog post by Lars Doucet on Fortress of Doors about teaching kids to ride a bike by removing the pedals first, and the broader lessons about learning.
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD(matt.might.net)
343 points by chii | 217 comments
Matt Might's illustrated essay explaining what a Ph.D. is using a series of circle diagrams representing the boundary of human knowledge.
I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled(linkedin.com)
1254 points by jdkaim | 621 comments
LinkedIn post by student JD Kaim explaining he had to take down HuskySwap, his course-swapping app, under threat of expulsion from his university.
Learning Synths(learningsynths.ableton.com)
350 points by holdit | 118 comments
Ableton's Learning Synths, an interactive browser-based site teaching the basics of synthesizers and sound synthesis; the page was captured while still loading.
We are teen hackers from around the world who code together(hackclub.com)
338 points by mooreds | 80 comments
Homepage of Hack Club, a nonprofit community of teenage programmers offering clubs, hackathons, fiscal sponsorship, and programs like High Seas.
U.S. math scores drop on major international test(chalkbeat.org)
328 points by akantler | 592 comments
Chalkbeat article reporting that U.S. student math scores declined on the TIMSS international assessment, released December 2024.
California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones(latimes.com)
322 points by tafda | 437 comments
Los Angeles Times opinion commentary arguing that gifted students are California's most neglected group of students with special needs.
Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds(torrentfreak.com)
363 points by hn_acker | 97 comments
TorrentFreak article on a study finding that students, including Chinese postgraduates, use Z-Library to overcome expensive books and limited access to academic material.
Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT(news.mit.edu)
637 points by gnabgib | 393 comments
MIT News article announcing that starting in 2025, MIT undergraduates with family income below $200,000 will attend tuition-free under expanded financial aid.
Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations(bloomberg.com)
412 points by JumpCrisscross | 859 comments
Bloomberg feature examining whether AI-writing detectors work and how students are being falsely accused of cheating with AI.
12 Months of Mandarin(isaak.net)
454 points by misiti3780 | 249 comments
A personal blog post on Isaak.net recounting the author's experience learning Mandarin Chinese over twelve months.