Dec 28, 2024 | Education, Salon.com
Seemingly no one wants a low IQ. People with self-reported low intelligence quotients describe struggling with self-esteem issues and romantic hardships. The Environmental Protection Agency is reevaluating its support for fluoridation because of reported drops in IQ scores, while the Supreme Court is reconsidering death row cases on the basis that certain inmates’ low IQs might be mitigating factors in their sentences....
Originally posted on salon.com
Nov 8, 2023 | Education, Salon.com
In her 2022 book “Visual Thinkers: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think In Pictures, Patterns and Abstractions,” animal behavior scientist and autism rights advocate Temple Grandin described how there are different types of intelligence. Some people are gifted mechanically, Grandin pointed out; others at mathematics and abstract thinking; still others at the arts; and so on....
Originally posted on salon.com
Oct 25, 2022 | Education, Salon.com
Shot of a student struggling in a classroom Getty Images/Kobus Louw
When the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States in early 2020, public school officials were suddenly and unexpectedly forced to make life-and-death decisions. As the American death toll mounted (more than 1 million at the time of this writing), states across America closed their schools....
Originally posted on salon.com
Oct 17, 2022 | Education, Salon.com
Dr. Temple Grandin speaks outside of the US Patent and Trademark Office on April 3, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images
When animal behavior scientist and autism rights advocate Temple Grandin was beginning her career in livestock, one of her goals was to make the slaughtering process more humane for cattle....
Originally posted on salon.com
Aug 30, 2021 | Education, Salon.com
Students and teacher in school during COVID-19 pandemic, wearing masks Getty Images
Most humans aspire to be leaders; few think deeply about the anxiety that comes with leadership. Superintendents, who lead school districts, are the public faces of their schools, which might be rewarding; yet they also provide the public with someone to blame in the event that something bad happens....
Originally posted on salon.com
Apr 11, 2021 | Education, Salon.com
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the pandemic caused “the largest disruption to education in history” — and children are suffering from learning loss as a result.
The study, which was co-authored by researchers affiliated with the University of Oxford, analyzed national examinations that occurred in the Netherlands both during and after their school lockdowns....
Originally posted on salon.com
Mar 10, 2021 | Education, Salon.com
Two Princeton University economists, one a Nobel Prize winner, released a study on Monday that highlighted the important way education level relates to lifespan — namely, that the two-thirds of Americans without bachelor degrees have been dying younger since 2010. By contrast, the life expectancy of those with bachelor degrees has increased over the past three decades....
Originally posted on salon.com
Feb 23, 2021 | Bullying, Education, Salon.com
If you were ever bullied as a child or teenager, the chances are that you were told at some point that bullies deserve your pity: That they have low self-esteem, are victims of abuse themselves or are acting out of mental illness.
Yet a new study reveals that a large number of bullies act as they do in order to gain status among their peers — and that in trying to climb the social ladder, they will often target their own friends....
Originally posted on salon.com
Nov 22, 2020 | Education, Salon.com
Teachers, Erin Kelly, left, and Dana Lespierre, lead a second grade class in a lesson teaching good citizenship. At Burgundy Farm Country Day School in Alexandria, Virginia, teachers are using the presidential election to educate students about things such as citizenship and character traits. With the issues surrounding the 2016 election, some teachers have avoided discussing the election altogether, while others have assigned students to watch the debates....
Originally posted on salon.com
Sep 20, 2020 | Education, Salon.com
Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik’s Cube Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images
For years I have harbored a shameful secret: I once helped solve a Rubik’s Cube, but it was entirely by accident, and I’ve been too proud to ever try to complete the puzzle again.
I wish I could brag and say I mastered the puzzle of the Rubik’s Cube through sheer cerebral power....
Originally posted on salon.com