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Where The Smart Kids Are 23 Aug 2013 | 08:01 am
Note to Brilliant readers: What follows is my review of a new book by journalist Amanda Ripley, “The Smartest Kids In The World: And How They Got That Way.” The review will appear on the cover of this...
Learning Is Stressful—That’s Why We Need Social Support 19 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
Here’s the weekly “Brillant Quote” from my email newsletter: “Students need to be both motivated and free from fear in order to learn. They need to have a bit of anxiety about grades to push them alo...
Don’t Just Learn—Overlearn 19 Aug 2013 | 06:20 pm
“Why do I have to keep practicing? I know it already!” That’s the familiar wail of a child seated at the piano or in front of the multiplication table (or, for that matter, of an adult taking a tenni...
Intelligence, Beyond Raw Brainpower 12 Aug 2013 | 10:26 pm
What does it take to think and act in an intelligent way? Many of us would say it’s simply a matter of raw brainpower. That perspective was on display in a recent NPR segment, in which the pundit Davi...
Can Data Predict The Future? And What Should We Do About It? 6 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
“Is it good to tell a first-grader, ‘You might be a dropout?’” The obvious answer would seem to be: Uh, no. But when Thomas C. West posed this question recently to Education Week reporter Sarah D. Sp...
How Daydreaming Can Help You Pay Attention 29 Jul 2013 | 06:52 pm
Besieged at every turn by distractions, we spend a lot of time struggling to pay attention, concentrate, and focus on the task in front of us. What we don’t do, according to University of Southern Cal...
Girls Should Play More Video Games, And Other Thoughts On “Cognitive Balance” 24 Jul 2013 | 06:38 pm
This article went out yesterday to more than 12,000 susbcribers to The Brilliant Report, my weekly newsletter. If you’d like to get The Brilliant Report delivered to your e-mail box, please sign up in...
Students With High Test Scores Go Farther Away For College 19 Jul 2013 | 05:28 pm
The higher a student’s score on a college entrance exam, the farther from home the student is likely to go for college, reports Mary Beth Marklein of USA Today. A similar link exists between the educa...
Learning Physics Through Moving Your Body 16 Jul 2013 | 06:21 pm
I’ve written recently about how gestures can help us learn. Increasingly, researchers are designing specific learning exercises that put the power of such movements to work. Here’s one great example, ...
Progressive Educators and the Teaching of Facts 15 Jul 2013 | 08:51 pm
I included this quote from a new book, Seven Myths About Education, in The Brilliant Report today. Some readers objected that it was unfair. What do you think? (That’s the author, Daisy Christodoulou,...
