Teachers’ pets win prizes
News that teachers in England show favouritism is no surprise, but rather evidence of a system that is failing too many children
Are there far too many teachers’ pets in England? Do too many teachers from England
Online GLBT School To Launch In 2010
A new online high school targeting LGBT students, believed to be the first of its kind, plans to launch in January 2010.
The brainchild of David Glick, who has been part of the virtual school environment as a
Why Students Underachieve
Virtually all psychologically important human motives and goals reduce to combinations of 16 universal life motives (see my book “The Normal Personality“, Cambridge University Press). Everybody embraces these life motives, but individuals prioritize them differently. How
Cheating In School
They don’t think so at the time, but when adolescents cheat in school they hurt themselves. Here’s how it all works.
The psychological formula for cheating at school is simply this: cheating = sneaking + lying +
Trouble On The SAT
Traditionally, learning-disabled students are given extra time, and their test results are flagged. In an era of competitive admissions and overdiagnosis of attention disorders, educators worry that high school students (and their parents) will exaggerate
