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Making things hard to read 'can boost learning'

According to researchers at Princeton University, difficult-to-read fonts improve learning.
In the study volunteers had to learn made-up information about different types of aliens - and found that those reading harder fonts recalled more when tested 15 minutes later.
The idea is that schools could boost results by simply changing the font used in their basic teaching materials.
I'm off to change the fonts on all my lessons.

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