Education Is All in Your Mind
AS Department of Education officials consider how best to spend billions from the economic stimulus plan, they would be wise to pay attention to which programs actually help children’s achievement — and keep in mind that sometimes very small influences in children’s lives can have very big effects.
Consider, for example, what the social psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson have described as “stereotype threat,” which hampers ...
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The black students would be better helped if their ipods and cellphones are taken at the door of the school and if no student not dressed conventionally was let into the door. Any student using the F word or compound thereof should be shown the door for the day.