Amid a deepening literacy crisis, there’s been a focus on how to close the achievement gap, but Natalie Wexler sees the key problem undermining the American educational system a little differently.

Knowledge is power—but what happens when you're having trouble picking up new ideas? It wasn't all that long ago in human history that our access to facts, figures, and statistics was very limited.

Artificial intelligence systems have long struggled with a limitation known as catastrophic forgetting, where learning new tasks causes models to lose previously acquired knowledge. This issue has ...