Annie Murphy Paul
Washington Post
New Haven, CT, United States
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An insightful ode to oddballs
Olga Khazan, who knows what it’s like to be different, explores the science of feeling weird. → Read More
Diane Ravitch Declares the Education Reform Movement Dead
In “Slaying Goliath,” the veteran public-education activist celebrates the defeat of efforts to introduce federal education standards and testing into public schools and expand charters. → Read More
Book review of The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King
Maxwell King recounts the life and passions of the children’s television personality. → Read More
Not From Venus, Not From Mars: What We Believe About Gender and Why It’s Often Wrong
In “Testosterone Rex,” the Australian academic Cordelia Fine argues that society’s views about gender are blinkered, hidebound and wrong. → Read More
Want to read fast and well? Ignore the rules of the speed-reading gurus
Mark Seidenberg explores the good, bad and awful in the teaching of reading. → Read More
Against ‘Personalized Learning’
A couple of years ago, Benjamin Riley kicked up a fuss with a blog post provocatively titled “Don’t Personalize Learning.” Personalized learning, of ... → Read More
The Yale Controversy Is Really About Belonging
I felt at home at Yale—But I was a white woman who’d graduated from a private prep school → Read More
Instead of Opting Students Out of Tests, Teach Them to Take Tests Right
Children can’t opt out of every test. They can learn to take them well, and learn from the results. → Read More
Are College Lectures Unfair?
Evidence suggests that it’s not the right form of teaching for many women, minorities and low-income students. → Read More
How Not To Fall Asleep on the Job and Get Stuck in a Plane: A Tutorial
45% of Americans say that poor or insufficient sleep affected their daily activities at least once in the past seven days. → Read More
How Not To Put Your Foot in Your Mouth: A Tutorial
Speaking — especially public speaking — isn’t a matter of “being yourself.” → Read More
Harry Potter Casts a Spell for Tolerance
Students who read and discussed a scene from Harry Potter in which the cruel Draco Malfoy calls Hermione a “filthy little Mudblood,” and her friends react with outrage reported more positive feelings about immigrants. → Read More
And the Moral of the Story Is: Keep It Positive
Do morality tales change children’s behavior? Research suggests that emphasizing the positive effects of honesty may, while tales of dire consequences fall on deaf ears. → Read More
We Tell Kids to 'Go to Sleep!' We Need to Teach Them Why.
Sleep does so much more for our bodies than preventing us from being tired tomorrow, but most parents don’t tell our children that. Educating kids about the importance of sleep leads them to sleep more. → Read More
Why Pediatricians Are Prescribing Books
Children under five years old see their doctor at least once a year, and the opinion of a physician often carries more weight with parents than that of a teacher or counselor. → Read More
Thirteen in Years, But 10 or 15 in Thoughts and Action
Some 13-year-olds are deep into teen culture, others little changed from the kids they were at a younger age. Subjective age varies, and that variation can raise a red flag for some young teens.<p><em><strong>Like what you’re reading? Get the best of Motherlode articles, links, comments and conversation, along with previews of posts to come, delivered each week to your inbox. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/motherlode/">Sign… → Read More
Learn to Love Math
Students have been taught that math is about right and wrong, rather than trial and error → Read More
What Adults Can Learn From the Way Kids Learn
Slipping back to more elementary approaches is how we achieve cognitive change. → Read More
Be More Productive—By Doing Less
Our constant busyness prevents us from entering the associative mental state in which unexpected connections and insights are achieved. → Read More
Reading Experience May Change the Brains of Dyslexic Students
Recent research suggests that the difficulties dyslexia creates with reading may not be hard-wired. Instead, experience may play a big role in exacerbating reading problems and, potentially, in easing them. → Read More