Hacker News: rhayneshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rhaynesHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:13:23 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by rhaynes in "Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12"]]>Congrats on the launch! I'm curious if you're familiar with ED Hirsch's work and if so how you see a "core knowledge" curriculum fitting into AI-enabled tutoring. Your landing page suggests you might be falling into traditional anti-patterns for strengthening reading skills like "finding the main idea" and "close reading" of the text (your ai tutor animation instructs a student to look closely for the answer). These patterns are commonly used in American education and have largely been discredited. They persist due to outdated learning theory taught in American educational schools and are likely responsible for our falling reading scores. I'm bringing this up because my hope is that any ed tech tool regardless of whether it uses AI would start with the right foundational theory.

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