“To heal our political and economic rifts” and “improve American education,” we should require all students to take debate, argues Robert...

“As they progress through school, students are getting better at believing they can master challenging subjects, but they are getting...

Girls who are high achievers in math, and confident about their ability, are less likely to major in math, engineering and science than...

The college-educated class is “making sure their children retain their privileged status,” while the children of other classes have...

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge,” wrote Charles Darwin inThe Descent of Man (1871). He was on to...

Someone — nobody knows who — paid a chess coach to to teach the game to grade schoolers in rural Franklin County, Mississippi, reports 60...