When children spend more time in structured activities, they get worse at working toward goals, making decisions, and regulating their behavior, according to a study. Instead, kids might learn more when they have the responsibility to decide for themselves what … Continue reading Study: Too Many Structured Activities May Hinder Children’s Executive Functioning
You’ve likely heard doctors or parents talking about a baby’s Apgar Score, but did you know that this lifesaving measure is named for its creator, Dr. Virginia Apgar, the pioneering anesthesiologist whose work has helped save countless newborns? The Apgar … Continue reading Virginia Apgar: The Doctor Who Saved Countless Newborn Babies By Inventing the Apgar Score
If medicine could break with its barbarous past, why shouldn’t the same path be open to the social sciences? By: Lee McIntyre In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis, then a lowly assistant physician in the world’s largest maternity clinic, made a discovery … Continue reading To Fix the Social Sciences, Look to the “Dark Ages” of Medicine
Our natural creative genius is stifled from the time we are born. At TEDxTucson, Dr. George Land dropped a bombshell when he told his audience about the shocking result of a creativity test developed for NASA but subsequently used to test … Continue reading We are born creative geniuses and the education system dumbs us down, according to NASA scientists
Meet the Bajau THE Bajau, a people of the Malay Archipelago, spend almost all of their lives at sea. They live either on boats or in huts perched on stilts on shallow reefs, and they migrate from place to place … Continue reading A group of people with an amphibious life have evolved traits to match
The team is responsible for sending commands to the ChemCam instrument, which shoots Martian rocks with a laser to determine their chemical make-u LOS ALAMOS, N.M., June 10, 2019—The laser that zaps rocks on Mars is commanded by a talented … Continue reading All-woman team commands rock-zapping laser on Mars
A visual exploration of how a critical piece of social infrastructure came to be. Editor’s note: CityLab’s visual storyteller Ariel Aberg-Riger shares the story of how America’s public libraries came to be, and their uneven history of serving all who need them. … Continue reading A History of the American Public Library
Here’s how it’s hurting your business, and how to fix it. One of the reasons that I became a teacher is that my Father was a Professor of Education. As a child I visited him in several of his graduate classes, … Continue reading Academic Grading is all Backasswards.
Is Education a Waste of Time & Money? These days, it’s a near-universal belief that more education (and more education spending) is a good thing. But is this true? In this essay, I want to look at some counter-intuitive thoughts on education from … Continue reading Rethinking Education
The arts may help students remember science lessons. Fifth-grade students who created some type of art—such as a drawing, writing a rap song, singing a science lesson, or choreographing a dance—that reflected specific classroom lessons, retained science-based knowledge longer than … Continue reading Arts-Integrated Pedagogy May Enhance Academic Learning
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