Education
How Praise Became a Consolation Prize
Helping children confront challenges requires a more nuanced understanding of the “growth mindset.”
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Guillermo del Olmo / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel ... The Failing Grade for Tests
In the final installment of our series, a panel of education experts describes what evaluation and accountability look like in the perfect world.
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Reuters From SATs to Sports: This Week’s Top 7 Education Stories
The best recent writing about school
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Mike Segar / Reuters Colleges Really Need to Rethink the Career Advice They Deliver
A new report suggests most graduates don’t find the current offerings very helpful.
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Fred Thornhill / Reuters Mentoring's Promise and Limits
Research on the long-term effects of advisers is mixed, and some programs are now relying on video-game networks and other technology to forge stronger relationships.
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Kate Flock / The Hechinger Report The Applied Learning of War
The hands-on approach of the U.S. Naval War College prepares students to learn faster and retain the information longer.
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Ted. S. Warren / AP Why Doesn't Public School Start at Birth?
The economist James Heckman argues in a new paper that early-childhood education should commence at the very beginning of life.
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Godong / Getty The American Obsession With Parenting
Parents of all income and education levels are spending more time promoting their kids’ development—yet socioeconomic gaps in childrearing behavior are growing.
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Maskot / Getty How to Predict a Baby's First Word
A new study suggests what a toddler sees plays a major role.
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USA Today Sports / Reuters Video-Game Addicts and Football Fanatics: This Week in Education Writing
Seven days of stories about school
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Paul Beaty / AP Choosing Between Shelter and School
Antiquated procedures and limited resources prevent many homeless children from having a stable education experience.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Did Jeff Sessions Champion Desegregation?
Trump’s nominee for attorney general claims to have “filed 20 or 30” desegregation cases as U.S. attorney in Alabama, but there’s little evidence to support that.
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Mike Groll / AP How Do American Students Compare to Their International Peers?
The most recent math results from an international survey place the United States near the bottom.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic Where Students Get Two Years of College in High School for Free
A small private school in western Massachusetts has launched a network of tuition-free early colleges across the country.
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Matt Rourke / AP How to Find Teachers of Color Who Want to Stay on the Job
A charter network is leveraging its pool of former students in an effort to get more educators of color on staff.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Why For-Profit Colleges Are Undaunted by the Trump University Case
Many players in the sector have seen their stocks climb since the election.
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Erin Einhorn The Challenge of Manufacturing a Diverse Campus
A charter in Detroit that sought to attract families of all races and incomes is seeing real integration. But it might not stay that way.
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Courtesy of Landscape Structures The Playground Where Babies Learn to Talk
A campaign to encourage brain development is using parks to deliver its message to children and their caregivers.
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Michaela Rehle / Reuters Grief's Front Lines and Plastic Best Friends: This Week in Education Writing
Seven days of stories about school
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Mike Stone / Reuters What Is the Future of the Office for Civil Rights?
Experts with varying opinions weigh in on what the arm of the Department of Education could look like under Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Notable Silence of New York's Charter-School Leaders
Betsy DeVos is an advocate of education choice, so why haven’t many of her colleagues rallied behind her?
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William Fernando Martinez / AP The Psychological Trauma of a Multi-Generation War
Colombian children have never lived in a world where their country was not fighting. Now, as peace finally seems probable, the nation is grappling with the mental-health fallout from the conflict.
