Grit, character and academic success: thoughtlessness, part 3
As readers may know, a new book is getting a lot of national press these days: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, …
Category Archives: Research
The student voice – part 3: The most interesting work of the past year
One of the most interesting and revealing questions on our survey of middle and high school students involved their answer …
The Student Voice – our survey, part 2
In my previous post about the extensive student survey we conducted, I noted a few oddities that I want to …
My radical view of the just-released SAT data and the perpetual correlation of test scores with SES
It is a longstanding ugly fact in education: the child’s socio-economic status is tightly correlated with test scores. The just-released …
A 21st century approach to writing reports – and homework
What if you read the following in the sports section: “WISCONSIN appears to be in the driver’s seat en route to …
