Unlearning Unproven Educational Theory

The New York Times recently ran an interesting article entitled "Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits." It suggests that we can also forget what we've been told about children having different learning styles:

Take the notion that children have specific learning styles, that some are “visual learners” and others are auditory; some are “left-brain” students, others “right-brain.” In a recent review of the relevant research, published in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a team of psychologists found almost zero support for such ideas. “The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing,” the researchers concluded.