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The Key To Learning: Knowing How Learning Works
What’s the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather riddle-like answer: It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know. To put it in more...
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Professor: I Banned Laptops from the Lecture Hall
In this brave new world of twenty-first century higher education, it is now axiomatic that professors must employ every possible digital device in order to engage their students. This has led to the...
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How Los Angeles Can Become Water Independent
As a nation, we dream of energy independence. But in Los Angeles, we wouldn’t dream of water independence. Our local groundwater resources, in this partial desert with Mediterranean weather, provide...
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Don’t Just Talk. Listen to Your Baby Too
If you’re a parent, you can’t miss the hot new thing in early education: words. Talk to your baby, and you close the education gap, goes the theory. Early language experiences, myriad studies show,...
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How to Build Willpower for the Weak
Researchers say we humans have a limited supply of willpower, like a muscle that can be exhausted. If we use up our willpower resisting one temptation we will have less in reserve to resist the next....
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Universal Pre-K Won’t Solve Vocabulary Gap (Or Inequality)
The movement to provide universal pre-K to our nation’s children thought it got a big boost earlier this week when the New York Times publisheda front page article about a study showing a disturbingly...
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Obama May Have Lost Faith in Government
Irony is a part of life, the cliché goes. And right now, President Barack Obama is living the part, in a big way: He’s the civil libertarian defending an activist drone program. He’s the liberal with a...
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Thinking You Did Great After the SAT is a Sign You Bombed
Last Saturday, students from around the world took part in a ritual of adolescence: the SAT. After the test, I received a slew of emails from test-takers who’d read my blog for SAT tips, reporting back...
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The Case for Raising Your Child With Two Religions
Americans are leaving behind single-faith identities. According to a 2009 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, almost one quarter of all Americans attend religious services of more than...
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The Pain of Piano Lessons: Can You Force Kids to Develop Interests?
In recent years researchers have begun to build a science of interest, investigating what interest is, how interest develops, what makes things interesting, and how we can cultivate interest in...
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What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?
“Why haven’t we ever had a woman President?” Spurred by this question from my then 8-year-old daughter, I set out to find the answer by interviewing the most influential journalists, activists,...
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Women Chefs Talk About That TIME List
Alison Barshak was the chef at Striped Bass in Philadelphia when it was awarded the title of best new restaurant in America by Esquire magazine in 1994. She was one of 15 chefs on the PBS TV series,...
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Politicians Really Are Big Babies
Democrats and Republicans are more split than anytime since the late nineteenth century, and there is no sign that things are getting better. It’s often been said that the politicians are acting like...
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Trey Radel Scandal: What’s So Bad About Casual Drug Use?
So Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.), a self-styled “Conservative voice” in Congress, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of cocaine possession. And Toronto’s City Council has stripped Mayor Rob Ford of...
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There Is No Such Thing as a Motive for Mass Killings
Why did the Newtown shooter do it? This is the question to which the media and the public anxiously awaited an answer before yesterday’s release of a report by Connecticut investigators. The report...
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Football: A Waste of Taxpayers’ Money
As we enter the drama-filled final week of the regular college football season and the final month of the National Football League’s schedule, forget about GM and Chrysler, Solyndra, or even cowboy...
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Real Woman (and Men) Might Just Get Paid Family Leave. Finally.
When you think of today’s “Superwomen” struggling with problems of “work-life balance,” you tend to think of high-achieving professionals; smartphones surreptitiously tapped during school assemblies,...
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Jesus Wasn’t White, But Santa Definitely Is
This past week, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and her guests were discussing an article by Aisha Harris in which Harris described how Santa’s consistent depiction as a white man made her feel...
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My Mother Told Me I Was Fat, and It Was the Best Decision Ever
“I don’t want you to freak out,” my mother told me one morning when I was 12, “but I think you may have put on a little bit of weight.” Pick your jaw up from the floor and put away your pitchfork,...
View ArticleWendy Davis: Filibusters Do Not a Candidate Make
Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator who became a household name this summer after her gutsy filibuster to stop Gov. Rick Perry’s abortion restrictions, announced her candidacy yesterday to replace...
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