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 ...

More and more, people in education agree on the importance of schools' paying attention to stuff other than academics. But still, no one agrees on what to call that "stuff." I originally published a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

(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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caterina is a culture expert. She writes about culture and leadership. The curtains have come down on the last awards season; but ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this letter to the editor gave an incorrect statistic. It should say one in four students fail to graduate with their peers. Though the terms can vary (“efficacy,” ...

Performance Coach Cindra Kamphoff, Ph.D. Spoke at the University of St. Thomas Finding Forward Event about Building Mental Toughness in an Uncertain World What is grit? How does it help people? And ...

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 ...