In a recent Edutopia article, Angela Duckworth says schools should be measuring things such as teamwork, loyalty, honesty, grit, and creativity. She is wrong. She says, “I don’t want to send a signal to young people that cognitive ability is the only…
read moreThis afternoon I came across a two-year-old article on “Perfect, Freaky Olympic Bodies.“ One thing that most so-called education experts continue to ignore when they talk about how ‘every child is a genius,’ or ‘every child can succeed (in a simplistic, standardized…
read moreToday, the Common Application goes live, and with it the college admissions season is once again here. And today, hundreds of thousands of rising high school seniors begin transitioning from the thrill of imagining themselves in a variety of university settings as…
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