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Impulse Control

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:16:31 +0000

More social science in the news! Or perhaps this is another case of (to put it charitably) academics confirming what ordinary folk knew all along?

There’s a

growing body of research on “self-regulation” – people’s ability to stop, think, make a plan and control their impulses. It’s not a universal skill, as many grown-ups’ credit [...]

“…homework of a high caliber”

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:00:20 +0000

A co-worker brought to my attention a Wall Street Journal review of Patrick J. McCloskey’s “The Street Stops Here: A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem“.

At Rice High School in Harlem, where Mr. McCloskey [the author] focuses most of his book’s attention, the per-pupil cost of an education is pegged at $5,800 [...]

What is Success?

admin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:00:22 +0000

Stephen J. Dubner, he of half the Freakonomics fame, tackles the question: Do Good Grades Predict Success?

1. The very definition of success is elusive.

…we usually just assume that somehow grades in school (at any level) are predictors of future success, or certainly of intelligence; but I highly doubt it. I tried to find [...]