Brain training doesn’t work because your brain isn’t a muscle, writes James Thompson on the Unz Review. Improving working memory doesn’t...

technology to monitor students’ feelings is sparking privacy concerns, reports Benjamin Herold on Education Week. No kidding. All school...

A child’s curiosity may as important to learning as self-control or “grit,” writes Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week. Researchers used a...

Education folks are sick of hearing about grit: It’s the Finland of social-emotional traits. No more nose to the grindstone, writes Olga...

U.S. schoolchildren once were told to emulate “Honest” Abe Lincoln and George Washington, who ” could not tell a lie.” Traditional...

In an op-ed in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Rebecca Zwick asks whether measures of college applicants’ “grit” (and other character...