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Why I give my students a ‘tragedy of the commons’ extra credit challenge
The Washington Post: Imagine you’re a student and your teacher poses this challenge to the entire class: You can each earn some extra credit on your term paper. You get to choose whether you want
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What Are the Best and Worst Ways to Prepare for an Exam?
Scientific American: Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do, responds: So glad you asked! Scientists have a lot
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31st Annual SIOP Conference
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology will host its 31st Annual Conference from April 14–16, 2016, in Anaheim, California. Registration will open in December 2015. For more information, visit http://www.siop.org/.
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Why Do Former High-School Athletes Make More Money?
The Atlantic: This project was a slam dunk, that one was a home run, and it’s just the way the ball bounces—the last thing the business world needs to catalogue its accomplishments is another facile
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In A Digital Chapter, Paper Notebooks Are As Relevant As Ever
NPR: I confess. I’m a notebook nut. I own dozens and dozens of them. Everything from cheap reporter’s notebooks to hand-crafted Italian leather beauties. I wondered: Am I an analog dinosaur, or are there others
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Giving Teachers the Tools to Help Build Resiliency
The Huffington Post: For children who grow up facing adversity in their home, their path out is often lit by a teacher. I have spent tens of thousands of hours interviewing and reading the stories
