Keeping Kids From Toy Guns: How One Mother Changed Her Mind
When my husband was growing up, the only boy in a family of all girls, his mother didn't allow him to have any toy guns. He was a mild mannered, sweet little boy. But when he was five years old, he ran...
View ArticleWhy Are Hundreds of Harvard Students Studying Ancient Chinese Philosophy?
Eduardo Pelosi/FlickrPicture a world where human relationships are challenging, narcissism and self-centeredness are on the rise, and there is disagreement on the best way for people to live...
View ArticleGiving 101: The Princeton Class That Teaches Students to Be Less Selfish
Imagine walking along a road past a pond, when out of the corner of your eye you see a toddler boy flailing about in the water. You quickly look around. There is no other adult in sight. If you don’t...
View ArticleThe First Lesson of Marriage 101: There Are No Soul Mates
Research shows that practically every dimension of life happiness is influenced by the quality of one’s marriage, while divorce is the second most stressful life event one can ever experience.Yet...
View ArticleHow Schools Can Give Men the Skills They Need to Be Good Dads
Young men are more likely to drop out of high school and are less likely to aspire to college than their female peers. Young men who are poor, live in a city, and are black or Latino are at even higher...
View ArticleFinnish Education Chief: 'We Created a School System Based on Equality'
Finnish education often seems paradoxical to outside observers because it appears to break a lot of the rules we take for granted. Finnish children don’t begin school until age 7. They have more...
View ArticleThe Never-Ending Controversy Over All-Girls Education
Pippa Biddle always said she would never attend an all-girls school. She reluctantly agreed to visit Miss Porter’s, an all-girls boarding school in Farmington, Connecticut, as a favor to her mom. But...
View ArticleA Better Way to Teach History
In a spacious classroom in Aldrich Hall on the Harvard Business School campus, 100 students are passionately discussing a case called “Battle Over a Bank.” But these aren’t MBA students deliberating...
View ArticleShould Colleges Really Eliminate the College Lecture?
As a doctoral candidate interviewing at a liberal-arts college some years ago, I rambled, waded through pages of notes, and completely lost my train of thought at one point during my job presentation....
View ArticleHow Praise Became a Consolation Prize
As a young researcher, Carol Dweck was fascinated by how some children faced challenges and failures with aplomb while others shrunk back. Dweck, now a psychologist at Stanford University, eventually...
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