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The Ingredients of “Character”
Some key performance-character strengths: zest, grit, self-control, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism and curiosity. – Tough (2011): What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? in The New York...
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When students are able to recognize mistakes and analyze them, they will learn faster and deeper. Jonah Lehrer summarizes a new study that shows that people learn faster when they spend the effort to...
View ArticleTeaching Your Kids how to Argue
All that arguing with your teenager is, basically, teaching them how to argue. You yell, they learn to yell. You listen, and make your rational arguments respectfully, and they learn to do the same —...
View ArticleWhat Makes for an Effective School?
Dobbie and Fryer (2011) investigate the key things that make for an effective school. Effectiveness is based on test scores, which is a significant caveat, but most of their results seem reasonable....
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Will the New Arab Democracies Survive?
The key countries at the heart of the Arab Spring: Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. Image adapted from Wikimedia Commons User:Danalm000. What are the chances that the revolutions of the Arab Spring succeed...
View ArticleMelting Permafrost and a Warming Climate: Another not-so-Positive Feedback
There’s a lot of organic matter frozen into the arctic permafrost. As the arctic has been warming much faster than the rest of the planet, the permafrost soils are thawing out quite quickly. As they...
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