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  • Study: Teaching Kids Philosophy Makes Them Smarter

    Study: Teaching Kids Philosophy Makes Them Smarter0

    Does teaching younger children philosophy make them smarter? A “large, well-designed study” conducted by the Education Endowment Foundation suggests that the answer is yes. As Quartz reports: “Nine- and 10-year-old children in England who participated in a philosophy class once a week over the course of a year significantly boosted their math and literacy skills,

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  • Study: Teacher Development Courses are Ineffective

    Study: Teacher Development Courses are Ineffective0

    • August 17, 2015

    Teacher development courses are ineffective. Common sense reached that conclusion long ago. But fortunately, there’s now a study that confirms it entitled “The Mirage: Confronting the Hard Truth About Our Quest for Teacher Development.” According to The Boston Globe, “The study released Tuesday by TNTP, a nonprofit organization, found no evidence that any particular approach

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  • Study: Students Learn Better from Hot Teachers

    Study: Students Learn Better from Hot Teachers0

    When it comes to America’s educational woes, maybe the problem isn’t a ?“dumbed-down” curriculum or a lack of student effort… Maybe the problem is that there are too many ugly teachers? Okay, that’s just a bit of an exaggeration. However, a new study conducted by University of Nevada researchers and published in the Journal of General

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  • Study: Student Debt Cancellation Benefits the Wealthy, Not the Poor

    Study: Student Debt Cancellation Benefits the Wealthy, Not the Poor0

    From Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, some of the most prominent progressive politicians in the country are pushing hard for widespread student debt cancelation. So, it’s fascinating to see a new study show that forcing taxpayers to pay down the roughly $1.5 trillion in government-held student debt is not a “progressive” policy by

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  • Study: Smart People are Happier with Fewer Friends

    Study: Smart People are Happier with Fewer Friends0

    If too much socialization wears you out, it might be because you’re smart. That’s the interesting revelation uncovered in new research by evolutionary psychologists Satoshi Kanazawa and Norman Li, as reported in the Washington Post. Unsurprisingly, Kanazawa and Li found the following correlations in a national survey of 15,000 people they conducted: The higher the

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  • Study: Smart Kids Are Being Held Back

    Study: Smart Kids Are Being Held Back0

    The last several years have seen a number of parents reporting that their child is not being challenged by the local public school. Naturally, some may want to take these reports with a grain of salt, knowing that parents can easily overestimate the abilities of little Jimmy. But a new study out of Johns Hopkins

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