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Learning to Think Like a Scientist
November 1, 2026 Learning to Think Like a Scientist “The heart of science,” said the educator Sylvia Farnham-Diggory, “is the drive to discover, not the mastery of laboratory procedures and report formalities or the ability to recite facts from textbooks.” Traditional science…
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Why Students Hide Themselves from Us
EDUCATION WEEK October 2026 Why Students Hide Themselves from Us By Alfie Kohn There’s a scene near the beginning of Small Change (also known as Pocket Money), François Truffaut’s charming movie about children of all ages, in which a teacher makes each of her students recite a…
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Aggressive Nostalgia
October 15, 2026 Aggressive Nostalgia “Schools are getting worse and worse; young people today can barely read and write! In the old days, education standards were higher, kids were less self-centered, and people were more moral.” Except…social scientists have shown that none of…
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Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
October 1, 2026 Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools More than a quarter-century after “No Child Left Behind” deliberately left millions of children behind by imposing nationwide punitive high-stakes testing, U.S. students are still tested constantly, starting early in…
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Caution: Contents Under Pressure
September 15, 2026 Caution: Contents Under Pressure The psychological consequences of pressuring children to perform well academically (and, worse, to outperform their peers) are distressingly obvious. But some adults rationalize their actions by claiming that pressure can be…
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How Not to Deal with Bullying
September 1, 2026 How Not to Deal with Bullying The amount of bullying that goes on in schools is as sobering as the psychological impact it has on its victims, sometimes lasting into adulthood. Alas, common strategies for dealing with this problem are often ineffective and even…
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Teaching Kindness
August 15, 2026 Teaching Kindness How can schools help children to become not only good learners but also good people? What’s involved in cultivating a genuine concern about others , an enduring commitment to helping and caring? Here we consider several strategies, which require…