Children’s Pop-Up Books Flop as Learning Tool
New research finds children learn less from pop-up books than they do from old-fashioned volumes illustrated with photos.
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Great Expectations Create the Best Teen Scholars
There's a lot of ways parents can help their teenagers achieve, but research suggests the most effective way is expecting them to try their best.
Full-Time Students, Part-Time Education
Parents and grandparents lecturing the "Me Generation" how easy they have it get research to support their argument (at least when they're talking about college).
New Libraries Revitalize Cities
New library complexes rejuvenate urban centers around the world by including theaters, shops, cafes, offices and even gyms.
Don’t Tread on Me: I Home-School
As the legion of home-schoolers rapidly grows, sensible government oversight seems to be a reasonable option — or it'll invite a firestorm of opposition.
This Is Your Brain on Kafka
Does absurdist literature make you smarter? Giraffe carpet cleaner, it does!
Computer Error?
There appear to be cheaper, more effective ways to improve education in developing nations than the glitzy One Laptop per Child program.
Leon Botstein: In It for the Duration
A Miller-McCune interview of intellectual provocateur Leon Botstein.
Hardest Problems Can Make the Best Teachers
For those challenges that are difficult to describe, tackling the hardest example first may be the best way to master a concept.
Does Education Really Make You Smarter?
Public debate has been dominated by the belief that education builds human capital, causing increased income, health and political participation, among many positive outcomes. But new research suggests that costly expansions of education may not always bring the promised social results. In some cases, those expansions may do little but sort people according to their native ability.