The bottom line to the report is that policy discussions right now focus more on how to test students, what they should learn, how to make their schools better, and how to evaluate and improve teachers, instead of on the single biggest determiner of academic success: student motivation.

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In the United States, however, education is managed at the state and local levels, and expectations about what students should learn and how well they should learn it vary widely across the country.

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Their silence should be broken within a month, when the credit agencies learn what they are in for, as the FTC issues a ruling about how they should go about introducing the FACT Act and starts gathering comments.

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It will also involve political change, as younger generations comfortable with the ambiguities of Big Data come into their own, so they can learn to discern what is valuable in personal experience and commonsense narratives, and what should be discarded.

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Scientists hope to use what they learn to improve robot software, and they are even dreaming--dreaming, we should emphasize--of a team of robot soccer players that could someday compete against humans.

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