What do you think is the major determinant of whether our children excel in school? IQ? Good teachers? Good schools? Good standards and curricula? No, I say it is the students' motivation or just ...
The potential of a competency-based (or mastery-based) education system powered by digital learning to customize for each individual student’s needs and bolster learning excites many. A question some ...
Diane Ravitch, a historian of education, is the author, most recently, of "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools." Updated March 4, 2016, ...
Neomind Learning, led by co-founder and CEO Felipe Hildebrand, wants no part of the “AI tutor” label. Instead, the company is ...
Focusing on socio-emotional skills such as grit may help more children succeed in school. GettyImages School quality is important in determining children’s success at school. But individual ...
When positive-psychology expert and author Caroline Adams Miller began parenting in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was the height of the self-esteem movement and what Miller dubs the “everyone’s a ...
(This is the final post in a three-part series on “grit.” You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Failure can be a powerful tool to develop grit, but only when utilized effectively and with ...
"They can keep going because they have talent. It's impossible for me."I only thought that way back in my lacrosse club days. Looking at the regular players, I felt their physiques were different, ...
What do you think is the major determinant of whether our children excel in school? IQ? Good teachers? Good schools? Good standards and curricula? No, I say it is the students' motivation, or just ...