📚 Education Mar 11, 2026 · Eric Tucker

Pathological Explanations for Learning Differences: Untangling the Signal from the Noise to Measure Ability in the Age of AI

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Pathological Explanations for Learning Differences: Untangling the Signal from the Noise to Measure Ability in the Age of AI
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Hand Isaac Newton a tablet for a physics exam today, and he would bomb it—his brilliance obscured by an inability to navigate a simulation. We educators commit this malpractice against neurodivergent students daily, diagnosing their minds as deficient instead of our broken tests.



Myth vs. Science



Pamela Cantor, M.D., notes that 20th-century education rests on an assessment architecture designed to sort students through a deficit lens, anchored by myths that genes dictate destiny, talent is

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