LEARNING

The Atlantic: [|MIT Online vs. Your Local College--How Will Web Learning Stack Up?] Harvard Magazine: [|Twilight of the Lecture--The trend toward “active learning” may overthrow the style of teaching that has ruled universities for 600 years.]

[|You Need To Learn How To Program--Make a free weekly coding lesson your New Year’s resolution.]

[|What is College For?]

NYT: [|From Finland, an Intriguing School-Reform Model]

[|Hearing Bilingual--How Babies Sort Out Language]

[|Is there a genius in all of us?]

NYT: [|Online Learning, Personalized--Khan Academy Blends Its YouTube Approach with Classrooms]

[|Why Innovation Can't Fix America's Classrooms]

NYT: [|Sorry, Strivers--Talent Matters]

NYT: [|Willpower--It’s in Your Head]

NYT: [|The Hoarder in You--It’s Time to Say Goodbye to All That Stuff]

NYT Op: [|The Power of Positive Coaching]

[|America Needs Broadly Educated Citizens, Even Anthropologists]--The president of Arizona State University explains why Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s emphasis on practical education is short-sighted.

[|IQ 'can change in teenage years'] [|How Can You Increase Your IQ?] Stay in school (or just play some memory games).

[|My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling]**:** Three American siblings attend an experimental school in Moscow where instruction is only in Russian and classes are videotaped to improve teaching.

[|No evidence that single-sex schools are better than coed] Lots of disagreement with the article in the comments section

NYT Opinion: [|The Trouble With Homework] Interesting. So how much homework do our students do, and how can we make them do more productive homework?

NYT Op-Ed: [|How to Stop the Drop in Verbal Scores]

NYT Opinion: [|Delay Kindergarten at Your Child’s Peril]

NYT Opinion: [|Egghead and Blockheads]

[|The Question-Driven Life]: Interesting bio or profile example

[|The Kids Are Not All Right]: students can examine how to make the support stronger for this article / look for logical fallacies like begging the question

[|Salman Khan, Founder of Khan Academy--His folksy lectures are revolutionizing how kids learn math and science.] [] []

[|Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade]

[|How Exercise Can Keep the Brain Fit]

[|Not your imagination--Kids today really are less creative, study says]

[|Can a Playground Be Too Safe?]

[|Internet Use Affects Memory, Study Finds]

[|Brain Calisthenics for Abstract Ideas]

[|Speaking Up in Class, Silently, Using Social Media]: A small but growing cadre of educators is trying to exploit Twitter-like technology to enhance classroom discussion.

[|The Bilingual Advantage]: Interview with Ellen Bialystok. By CLAUDIA DREIFUS: Among other benefits, the regular use of two languages appears to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms.

[|Your So-Called Education]: NY Times op-ed.

[|Coaching and Much More for Chinese Students Looking to U.S.]