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The Key To Learning: Knowing How Learning Works
Kids need to about the skills of learning in order to use them
Viewpoint: Twitter’s All-Male Board Spells Failure
Organizations can’t innovate if they don’t have a variety of perspectives
Forget Delayed Gratification: What Kids Really Need Is Cognitive Control
From Head Start to Harvard
When I was 4, I thought “Head Start” was just the name of my pre-school. This week, the program that put me on the road to success had to send all children home.
Why Second Marriages Are More Perilous
Those who remarry have unrealistic expectations and don’t anticipate the unique challenges to second families
The Facebook Effect: Everybody Is So Cliché
Girls like “shopping,” boys like “Xbox.” Shocker.
The Giveaway Guy: One Possession a Day for a Year
An ad-exec embarks on a home ‘purge project’ hoping to clear his mind as well as his surroundings
Elite Female Professionals Hold Back Other Women
Female success has created a female servant class
Viewpoint: Judaism is Too Afraid Of Assimilation
The religion needs to stop using this frightened, scarcity-based logic to try to engage people. It doesn’t work
The Key to Smarter Kids: Talk to Them
Having discussions with your kids teaches them to become assertive advocates for themselves in school
Viewpoint: Pope John Paul II’s Canonization Wasn’t Too Fast
Those who have complained about a short-circuited process are mostly people who never wanted to see John Paul II canonized at all
Longer Maternity Leave Not So Great for Women After All
Turns out women in those Nordic countries with luxurious maternity leaves get mommy-tracked when they go back to work