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The live disagreement in a field is the thing students most need and the thing hardest to convey. WorldbyFlow maps the schools of thought on a question with what each camp actually argues and why it is unresolved, excerpts the primary documents verbatim, and reads the scholarship with its disputes intact.

Written for Teaches undergrad or graduate courses in a research field.·Runs in the Learning domain

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Where this fits in your week

Teaching and research draw on the same record in different shapes. The scans here serve both: the schools of thought for the seminar, primary documents with pinpoint citations for the reading list, a pulse on what the field is currently responding to, a literature review with disagreements treated as findings, the tests that would falsify a claim, and a survey of a field you are teaching for the first time.

Lead scan

Schools of Thought

2 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

The schools of thought on a question: what each camp actually argues, on what evidence, and why it remains unresolved. The seminar map.

Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know.
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Primary Documents

3 credits

Verbatim excerpts from primary sources with pinpoint citations, contested readings marked and gaps stated. The reading list, checked.

Try it on The Federalist Papers · The Treaty of Versailles · The Communist Manifesto

Scholarship Pulse

2 credits

What the field is currently responding to: results where someone besides the authors engaged, with disputed findings first-class. The "what is happening now" for a lecture.

Try it on The replication crisis · Universal basic income trials · Growth mindset

Literature Review

4 credits

What the scholarship says on a question, with disagreement between authors treated as a result. The literature section, organized honestly.

Try it on What predicts student retention · Whether lecture capture lowers attendance · How peer review affects research quality

Falsification Plan

3 credits

The tests that would prove a claim wrong, named in advance. A methods lesson and a paper section in one.

Try it on Lecture attendance predicts grades · Learning styles improve outcomes · Smaller classes raise achievement

Field Study

4 credits

A whole field surveyed: questions, methods, canonical works, live debates. The read before teaching a course outside your specialty.

Try it on Behavioural economics · Cognitive science · Comparative literature
A working path

From a first run to a result you can hand over

The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.

01

Run Schools of Thought on your seminar's central debate

You know the camps. Check whether each is given its actual argument at its actual strength before handing it to students.

2 credits
02

Run Primary Documents on the text of the week

Verbatim excerpts with citations. Confirm against your edition, as always; the citations make it quick.

3 credits
03

Run Scholarship Pulse for the "this week in the field" slide

Results that others have engaged with, disputes included. The lecture opener with sources.

2 credits
04

Read the question through a thinker

Re-read the scan through the documented method of a thinker on the roster. A modeled reading, stamped as such, for the seminar to argue with.

1 credit
The research bill for this path
2 + 3 + 2 = 7 credits · a Standard plan carries 20 a month
What comes back

A result whose claims carry their grades

Sourced, not asserted

Every figure and quote links to where it came from. A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up.

Verified or grounded
Reported or attributed
Contested
Open question

Ready to hand over

Cite the sources into BibTeX or RIS, or share the read as a page students open from the syllabus.

Built to be argued with

Ask a follow-up question of any result, or run a Red Team pass that tries to break its own conclusions before someone else does. How the grades work →

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Research already published in this shape

Funding Anatomy of Teacher Shortage Response: Recruitment vs. Retention

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The largest and most durable dollars — federal Title II-A formula grants, state residency-grant programs, and staffing-agency contracts — flow to recruitment and stopgap coverage, while retention-side spending (mentor…

Follow the Money · September 16, 2026 · from the Learning library
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Run Schools of Thought on something you already know

The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. If a colleague sent you here with an invitation, the credits land on your account when you sign up.

Start with Schools of Thought →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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