Entries for the 'How Effort Shapes Ability' Category

What happens when at-risk student populations are given curriculum and instruction methods designed for gifted students? According the Project Bright ...

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The world of high-stakes online poker seems an odd place to look for inspiration. However, Jay Caspian Kang's profile of Daniel Cates for New York Tim...

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In this interview on NPR, olympic swimmer Cullen Jones discusses, among other things, early challenges that he faced as a swimmer. Throughout the inte...

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Efficacy is in the news!  As a part of our Envoy Project with Memphis City Schools, we engaged middle school students in a week-long summer camp,...

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Salma Hussein, Valedictorian of English High in Boston, tells David Boeri of WBUR that the theme of her graduation speech is "that you can be successf...

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This fascinating article from The New York Times profiles the Martin Luther King Jr. School of Excellence in Springfield, Massachusetts, where they ar...

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100% of the senior class at Chicago's only all-male, all African-American high school is accepted to universities—learn more about their inspirational...

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Paula and Peter Imafidon are the youngest children in Britain to enter high school, and their father, Chris, says it's not because they're geniuses.&#...

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Neal Conan interviews David Shenk about his new book, "The Genius in All of Us" for NPR.  Shenk offers excellent evidence that people can get sma...

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Read the article that everyone is talking about.  Elizabeth Green builds the case that great teachers aren't born, they're made, in her intriguin...

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