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Rahul Verma
How to tell whether a kids course is actually working
Finished lessons are the easiest thing to count and the least useful thing to know. Here is what to look at instead.
Rahul Verma1 min read72
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How to tell whether a kids course is actually working
Finished lessons are the easiest thing to count and the least useful thing to know. Here is what to look at instead.
Rahul Verma1 min read72 
teachingShort lessons win, and it is not because of attention spans
Every lesson on LearningKid is under fifteen minutes. The reason has less to do with focus than with how stopping works.
Sneha Iyer1 min read253
codingWhat a good first coding project looks like
Not a calculator. Not a to-do list. Something that moves, makes noise, and can be shown to a grandparent in under a minute.
Rahul Verma1 min read263
scienceFive kitchen science experiments that are worth the mess
Every one of these uses something already in your kitchen, and every one of them has a real explanation behind it.
Sneha Iyer1 min read722
readingReading aloud is still the highest-leverage thing you can do
It survives every change in curriculum, technology and fashion, and nothing has beaten it yet.
Rahul Verma1 min read121
accessibilityBehind the scenes: how we caption every lesson
Captions started as an accessibility requirement. They turned out to be the most-used feature we ship.
Meera Nair1 min read381