“American eighth-graders score 66 points below their Japanese counterparts in math, yet almost 40 percent of American children think they’re good in math. That figure for Japan is 4 percent. “This comes from an editorial by Richard Cohen in the Washington Post. He’s mixing together studies and does not explain…
I have three kids in Pre-K. It is an article of faith to me that it is a good idea – at least for our kids – and I barely remember my wife and I spending a lot of time debating whether to send our kids to Pre-K. Like most…
My wife and I have been reading Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman. One key premise of the book goes to the issue of whether we need a book like this in the first place. Don’t we have instincts as parents we can follow?…