Your lifetime earnings are probably determined in your 20s
Danielle Paquet: Ah, your 20s: A decade of self discovery, smartphone dating and shopping for IKEA coffee tables — right? A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York sends a more sobering...
View ArticleHow Spelling Keeps Kids From Learning
Luba Vangelova: Johnny in Topeka can’t read, but Janne in Helsinki is effortlessly finishing his storybooks. Such a disparity may be expected by now, but the reason might come as a surprise: It...
View ArticleStudy: Even for college-educated blacks, road to full-time work is rocky
Lolly Bowean: Months before he graduated from college, Jeramey Winfield was sending out resumes and applying for jobs online in Chicago. The media studies major hoped to jump from Colby-Sawyer College...
View ArticleDisabilities and online education
Tamar Lewin: Advocates for the deaf on Thursday filed federal lawsuits against Harvard and M.I.T., saying both universities violated antidiscrimination laws by failing to provide closed captioning in...
View ArticleGoogle boss warns of ‘forgotten century’ with email and photos at risk
Ian Sample: Cerf called for the development of “digital vellum” to preserve old software and hardware so that out-of-date files could be recovered no matter how old they are. “When you think about the...
View ArticleWhen letting your kids out of your sight becomes a crime
Danielle Meitiv: We all want what is best for our children. We want them to be happy and successful, and we want to protect them from harm. But what if we are protecting them from extremely remote...
View ArticleIs teaching about instruction or selection?
Gary Davis: Teaching is commonly associated with instruction, yet in evolution, immunology, and neuroscience, instructional theories are largely defunct. We propose a co-immunity theory of teaching,...
View ArticleWas Moynihan Right: What happens to children of unmarried mothers
Sara McLanahan & Christopher Jencks: 200119436-002In his 1965 report on the black family, Daniel Patrick Moynihan highlighted the rising fraction of black children growing up in households headed...
View Article“Since 2004, student loan balances have more than tripled, at an average...
Meta Brown, Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, and Wilbert van der Klaauw: Our data indicate that both increased numbers of borrowers and larger balances per borrower are contributing to...
View ArticleFormer admissions director: Parents, calm down. Let Harvard go.
Susan Svrluga: Like many who have worked in college admissions, she has heard it: All the worries from parents about “what they can do” to get their kids into Ivies. And she has read about a cluster of...
View ArticleDegrees don’t matter anymore, skills do
Miles Kimball: Too much of our educational system, both at the K-12 level and in higher education, is built around the idea that some students are smart and others are dumb. One shining exception are...
View ArticleEducating school teachers (2006)
Arthur Levine (PDF): This report, the second in a series of policy reports on the results of a four-year study of America’s education schools, focuses on the education of classroom teachers, the people...
View ArticleYoung researchers should take the time to educate themselves on STEM...
Julie Gould: Like many PhD students in their fourth year, there are two things constantly on my mind: one is my research, and the other is my post-graduation plan. I am currently a graduate student in...
View ArticleThe progressive ideas behind the lack of free speech on campus
Wendy Kaminer: Is an academic discussion of free speech potentially traumatic? A recent panel for Smith College alumnae aimed at “challenging the ideological echo chamber” elicited this ominous...
View ArticleWhy schools are failing our boys
Jennifer Fink: He hasn’t been allowed outside at school all week; it’s too cold. Yet this son has spent happy hours outside at home this week, all bundled up, moving snow with the toy snowplow,...
View ArticleHow To Save Our Public Schools
Richard C. Morais: Democrats and Republicans alike, he says, must first recognize that public education is a “broken, government-run monopoly serving the needs of adults at the expense of the needs of...
View ArticleHacking Oklahoma State University’s Student ID
Sam Snelling: In 2013 I took an Information Security class at Oklahoma State University. As a final project, we were broken into teams to find a security hole, and have a plan to theoretically exploit...
View ArticleIndiana School Choice Report
Indiana Department of Education (PDF): This is the 2015 update to the Choice Scholarship Program Annual Report originally released on January 27, 2014. This version of the report includes updates for...
View ArticleParents: not happy about something at school? Here’s how to complain
Disappointed Idealist: ne of the best pieces of advice I was ever given was from a friend in the restaurant business. If I were planning to complain about any part of my meal or service, he said, I...
View ArticleFinding cheaters using multiple-choice comparisons
Jonathan Dishoff: An interesting method by which I found out that people were cheating on my final exam. Background I use different versions of midterm examinations to discourage cheating in my...
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