Joanne Jacobs
Your brain is not a muscle
Brain training doesn’t work because your brain isn’t a muscle, writes James Thompson on the Unz Review. Improving working memory doesn’t...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 20, 20182 min read
Tech that monitor kids’ feelings: Creepy or … ?
technology to monitor students’ feelings is sparking privacy concerns, reports Benjamin Herold on Education Week. No kidding. All school...
Joanne Jacobs
May 4, 20181 min read
Curiosity kills the (achievement) gap
A child’s curiosity may as important to learning as self-control or “grit,” writes Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week. Researchers used a...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 20, 20181 min read
Grit or gratitude?
Education folks are sick of hearing about grit: It’s the Finland of social-emotional traits. No more nose to the grindstone, writes Olga...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 18, 20171 min read
The old is new: Character returns as SEL
U.S. schoolchildren once were told to emulate “Honest” Abe Lincoln and George Washington, who ” could not tell a lie.” Traditional...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 5, 20172 min read
Grit Scores and College Admissions
In an op-ed in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Rebecca Zwick asks whether measures of college applicants’ “grit” (and other character...
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