Help Others to Help Yourself: High School Students Benefit From Volunteer Work
Getting teenagers off of the couch can be difficult, but the benefits are undeniable.
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Mindfulness Training Boosts Test Scores
New research finds a mere two weeks of mindfulness training leads to improved scores in tests of reading comprehension and working memory.
One Area Where Head Start Lives Up to Its Name
Head Start is the kind of program that seems like it’s just gotta work. Founded in the opening…
The Practical Effect of Making Arts Education a National Priority
New research finds 1994 legislation that included the arts as a core subject in American schools made a difference in many places.
Spoofing Peer Review: Sock Puppets Publish or Perish
Academic research is the lifeblood of Pacific Standard, and without getting too high and mighty, its rigor is…
The Public Pension Story You Weren’t Reading About (Until Recently)
There’s a lot of talk about the sorry state of pensions in America, both the increasing lack of…
Ditch Day Economics: California Schools Paying $35 a Day, Per Kid
In my coworker’s email this morning, from the school principal: Hi parents. My sources have told me that…
The Smart Money Getting Smarter
Venture capitalists have plunked $15 million into Udacity, the free online university that Kevin Charles Redmon told us…
The Music Man
Steven Angel uses drumming to teach literacy. Across L.A., juvenile-detention centers, schools, and libraries have fallen in love with his program. But scientists say there’s no reason to believe it should work.
Are Vocational Education, Liberal Arts on a Collision Course?
As even liberal arts colleges continue to turn their back on the liberal arts, where will the technocrats produced by higher education hone their thinking skills to address the current crisis in governing?