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How the Stress of Racism Affects Learning
The Atlantic: A recent study from Northwestern University corroborates Agostini’s experience, suggesting that the stress of racial discrimination may partly explain the persistent gaps in academic performance between some nonwhite students, mainly black and Latino
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How to raise a genius: lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children
Nature: “What Julian wanted to know was, how do you find the kids with the highest potential for excellence in what we now call STEM, and how do you boost the chance that they’ll reach
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How ‘Daycare’ Became ‘School’
The Atlantic: Chelsea Clinton made headlines recently as she campaigned for her mother—not for the policy proposals she defended, but for the fact that she did not accompany her not-quite-2-year-old daughter Charlotte to the first
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Notes on Brain Camp
Summers have a special meaning, and perhaps purpose, for academics, whose lives are structured around the 9-month school year. For this reason, and because of the manifold opportunities for internships and summer schools available to
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Mind Over Midterms
Psychological scientists are studying promising interventions designed to change the mind-sets of students who believe their intelligence is limited or fixed.
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Why We Should Stop Grading Students on a Curve
The New York Times: Ask people what’s wrong in American higher education, and you’ll hear about grade inflation. At Harvard a few years ago, a professor complained that the most common grade was an A-.