In a post-smokestack age, there is only one way for the United States to avoid a declining standard of living, and that is through innovation...The nation has to enlarge its pool of the best and brightest science and math students and encourage them to pursue careers that will keep the country … [Read more...]
Even Gifted Students Can’t Keep Up In Math and Science, the Best Fend for Themselves
January 26, 2014 by
What Is Good Teaching?
January 26, 2014 by
What is good teaching? The question is rarely posed and almost never answered. This topic deserves attention and not just from teachers, but colleges, high schools, school boards and parents. For example, do teaching colleges teach class managment? Not much. They're training people for a … [Read more...]
Women Under 35 Have Achieved Something Remarkable in Modern America
January 25, 2014 by
A new Pew Research poll shows that the wage gap between men and women has almost collapsed for Americans aged 25 to 34. While young women were paid only 65% as much as their male counterparts as recently as 1980, millennial women, on the whole, make approximately 93% as much as their male … [Read more...]
Teachers Tell Us How to Fix Science and Math
January 24, 2014 by
There was some good news today for New York City high school students interested in computers--the city's Department of Education announced it would spend $1 million in public and private money to train 120 teachers in computer science and coding. Dozens of new computer science classes taught by … [Read more...]
7 Time Maximizing Tips for 2014
January 23, 2014 by
The most successful people I know are masterful at maximizing their time. They've learned that squandering productive time eats away at high-level success. Time management is for people who have modest goals. If you want to join the ranks of the highly successful, you must learn to maximize, not … [Read more...]
Here’s Where Teens Are Going Instead of Facebook
January 22, 2014 by
Facebook's demographics are changing. Some of the most devoted there now are women between 35 and 55 and share mostly pics of dogs, friends and kids. Click here to read on. … [Read more...]
Behind the Headline: Who Says Math Has To Be Boring?
January 21, 2014 by
American students are bored by math, science and engineering. They buy smartphones and tablets by the millions but don’t pursue the skills necessary to build them. Engineers and physicists are often portrayed as clueless geeks on television, and despite the high pay and the importance of such jobs … [Read more...]
How Sex Affects Intelligence, and Vice Versa
January 20, 2014 by
Sex and I.Q. Or not! New research says sexual activity can grow brain cells. Keeping them may be another matter. Forget mindfulness meditation, computerized working-memory training, and learning a musical instrument; all methods recently shown by scientists to increase intelligence. There could … [Read more...]
A First Report Card Fails to ‘Exceed Expectations’
January 20, 2014 by
I remembered that more than academic validation, what my child needs above all is for his mother to act like an adult. Being graded in kindergarten — or perhaps at any age — isn't the best idea. But as my kids are learning, life is neither perfect nor fair. Report cards are part of the school … [Read more...]
My Rules for My Kids: Eat Your Vegetables; Don’t Blame the Teacher
January 19, 2014 by
This is a short manual for raising kids. It won't work for everyone for various reasons (financial and health situations etc.) but it will work otherwise. And if you can't do it all you can do most or some of it. The more you can do the better things will go. A dad's lessons on raising … [Read more...]
