Amherst College, which banned fraternities and sororities in 1984, has now taken this an alarming step further: starting July 1, any students participating in an unofficial fraternity or sorority will be punished, and could be expelled. A college has the right to ban fraternities only in the sense of refusing to recognize gender-biased exclusive social […] … learn more→

Recent reports have suggested that Section 28-style bans on the promotion of homosexuality are on the rise in UK schools, causing concern among teachers\’ unions. Based on research by the British Humanist Association in 2013, a small minority of schools have been using an out-of-date policy template for sex education, harking back to the Section […] … learn more→

In eight years, we’ve gone from Kerry to Perry. The “Kerry” would be John, who, in 2006, said this in a speech to a group of students: “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do […] … learn more→

When I started my PhD journey a few years ago, I never imagined that I would finish on the operating table. It’s now been a year since I defended my PhD. I’m proud to say I survived. I passed, too, but that hasn’t really sunk in yet. When I took on the challenge of doing […] … learn more→

There is another issue to Common Core, possibly even more dangerous than making addition and subtraction so complicated that students will learn to become afraid of it long before they learn how to do it. The language is being changed, with a marked tendency towards lack of clarity and added complication. A Cheat Sheet, translating […] … learn more→

\”I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.\” —Thomas Edison There’s no shortage of inspirational quotes on failure, but have you ever noticed that they never come from an anonymous source? A good failure quote has staying power only if someone with grand achievements says it. Americans love a nice, meaty […] … learn more→

This article continues a look at some of the skepticisms I’ve seen about flipped learning and the flipped classroom. Previously, we discussed whether flipped learning means having students learn everything on their own and whether students can even learn on their own in the first place. This time I want to focus on an issue […] … learn more→

There is a great die-off under way, one that may justly be compared to the disappearance of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous, or the sudden downfall of so many great mammals at the beginning of the Holocene. But how far can such a comparison really take us in assessing the present moment? The […] … learn more→

Everyone knows someone with a quick temper – it might even be you. And while scientists have known for decades that aggression is hereditary, there is another biological layer to those angry flare-ups: self-control. In a paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, my colleagues and I found that people who […] … learn more→