Entries for the 'How Effort Shapes Ability' Category

Efficacy is in the news!  As a part of our Envoy Project with Memphis City Schools, we engaged middle school students in a week-long summer camp,...

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Salma Hussein, Valedictorian of English High in Boston, tells David Boeri of WBUR that the theme of her graduation speech is "that you can be successf...

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This fascinating article from The New York Times profiles the Martin Luther King Jr. School of Excellence in Springfield, Massachusetts, where they ar...

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100% of the senior class at Chicago's only all-male, all African-American high school is accepted to universities—learn more about their inspirational...

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Paula and Peter Imafidon are the youngest children in Britain to enter high school, and their father, Chris, says it's not because they're geniuses.&#...

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Neal Conan interviews David Shenk about his new book, "The Genius in All of Us" for NPR.  Shenk offers excellent evidence that people can get sma...

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Read the article that everyone is talking about.  Elizabeth Green builds the case that great teachers aren't born, they're made, in her intriguin...

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In the ever-exciting, ever-expanding field of brain research, the latest studies show that, while the older adult brain is less quick to pick up new t...

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New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Bob Herbert details Deborah Kenny's expectations for the teachers and students in her three successful Harlem charter s...

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A must read (or listen) story from NPR summarizes new research showing that intensive reading programs can produce measurable changes in the structure...

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