How Parents Shape Their Kids’ Risk Tolerance
A new working paper outlines how mom and dad can influence their child's levels of risk tolerance and trust, traits that have a significant impact on career outcome.
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U.S. Excels at Producing Suspect Behavioral Science
The mythbusters of academe take on soft science from the United States, and find a propensity toward aggrandizement.
Exporting Higher Education and Global Innovation Networks
Why Japan's minister for education and science is making it a priority to double the import and export of university students.
Not So Hot for Teacher
How did we come to decide that relationships between professors and students are almost always wrong?
The Student Debt Explosion
We celebrate education as the answer to almost all of our economic problems. At the same time, we largely ignore the enormous debt many American students are forced to acquire and the great difficulties they face in landing a job that makes it possible for them to pay it off.
The Pernicious Mission Creep of Ranking Academic Journals
The use of journal rankings to rate individual papers, scientists, and even programs has upset loads of people in academia. One paper's solution: Get rid of journals.
Pittsburgh Booming
The Steel City offers a better chance for upward mobility than almost any other place in the United States.
How Do We Feel About Higher Education? Look to the Movies
They're just summer blockbusters, sure, but they present a rather dim view of the importance of the classroom.
The Contagiousness of Suicide in the Classroom
One of the largest studies of its kind supports the theory that kids are more likely to consider suicide when those around them have committed the act.
Does Obama’s Ambitious Universal Pre-K Program Stand a Chance?
The long-term benefits of pre-k education are well established, but an opportunity to invest in it for every child in America is caught up in political stalemate.