Education

3 Reasons One Public School Advocate is Giving Up on the System 0
- Education
- May 1, 2017
When it comes to discussion of public schools, all too often battle lines seem to be drawn between those on the inside and outside of the system: the teachers and the parents. The teachers understandably want to defend the job they do, while the parents want to ensure that their child doesn’t become another dismal
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This 1886 Cornell English Syllabus May Explain Why College Students Can’t Write 0
- Education
- April 28, 2017
According to the Nation’s Report Card, only 27 percent of 8th graders attain proficiency in writing. But no problem, right? They’re just leaving middle school. Give them a few years under the instruction of high school English instructors and all will be well. That seems to be wishful thinking, for the Nation’s Report Card shows
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Children Have Amazing Powers of Memorization… So Why Aren’t Schools Using Them?4
- Education
- April 28, 2017
According to an article in the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, preschool-age children have a special talent for memorizing and remembering rhymes. As the Digest explains, a recent study found that, compared to their parents and other older adults, young children are able to recall “nearly twice as many correct words” from the rhyming stories
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Education Used to Happen Outside of School 0
- Education
- April 27, 2017
Prior to passage of America’s first compulsory schooling statute, in Massachusetts in 1852, it was generally accepted that education was a broad societal good and that there could be many ways to be educated: at home, through one’s church, with a tutor, in a class, on your own as an autodidact, as an apprentice in
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5 Myths about Emotional Intelligence 0
- Education
- April 27, 2017
In the past few years Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been widely lauded as the most innovative way to measure smarts since Intelligent Quotient (IQ). Harvard Business Review called EI a “ground-breaking, paradigm-shattering idea.” But what does EI mean? How is it useful? And what myths or misconceptions have surrounded it? Probably the most succinct definition
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Harvard Poll Finds that Millennials Basically Live in Bubbles 0
- Education
- April 26, 2017
A new poll from Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP) reveals that millennials, or people aged 18 to 29, are enclosed in ideological bubbles. Their social and professionals circles are largely segregated along partisan lines: conservatives interact almost exclusively with conservatives, liberals with liberals. Here’s a snapshot of the poll findings: More conservatives know
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