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• Critical Thinking Best Taught Outside Classroom - Dennis Bartels, SciAm
• What Wasn't Taught in School: How to Learn - Neurobonkers, Big Think
• Creationists' Crazy School Curriculum - Jonny Scaramanga, The Guardian
• How Important Is Preschool Really? - Melinda Moyer, Slate
• Education Does Not Increase Intelligence - Satoshi Kanazawa, Big Think
• Ray Kurzweil's Reasons to Be Optimistic in 2013 - Daniel Honan, Big Think
• Future of Physics Starting to Look More Female - Elizabeth Day, Guardian
• New Orleans Schools Vote to Ban Creationism - Tania Dall, WWLTV
• Why Average Students Think They're Awesome - Shankar Vedantam, NPR
• Does Education Decrease Religious Belief? - Tomas Rees, Field of Science
• Re-Thinking How Colleges Teach Critical Thinking - Scott Johnson, SciAm
• How Education Hijacked Brain Research - Max Coltheart
• In Defense of Pseudoscience - Paul Willis, ABC Science
• Textbook Wars: What We're (Not) Teaching Our Kids - The Economist
• What Makes a Genius? - Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American
• Psychological Barriers Block Our Success - David Brooks, New York Times
• Cooking Up a Chem Education - Lauren Wolf, Chemical & Engineering News
• Science Doctorates Are Not a Waste of Time - Daniel Lametti, Slate
• Science Doesn't Know Everything - David Barash, Los Angeles Times
• Every Student Should Take Algebra - Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific Am.
• Do All Students Really Need Algebra? - Andrew Hacker, New York Times
• Calculator Refuses to Give Away Answer - Sanjoy Mahajan, Freakonomics
• We Should Bribe Students to Study Hard - Steven Levitt, Freakonomics
• Confusion Can Be Beneficial for Learning - University of Notre Dame
• The Causes and Consequences of Grade Inflation - Enrico Uva, Science 2.0
• It's Time to Bring Back Home Economics - Torie Bosch, Slate
• Stop Your Hype, Thomas Friedman - Massimo Pigliucci, Rationally Speaking
• Educating the Next Steve Jobs - Tony Wagner, Wall Street Journal
• Are Our Children as Dumb as We Think? - A. Barton Hinkle, Reason
• Autism Can Actually Be Advantageous - Deborah Kotz, Boston Globe
• Are Teachers Overpaid or Underpaid? - Jordan Weissmann, The Atlantic
• Math Scores Improving, But Long Way to Go - John Matson, Scientific Am.
• America Needs Broadly Educated Citizens - Michael M. Crow, Slate
• Single-Sex School Ban: Science or Activism? - Christina Sommers, USAT
• Unleashing Students' 'Inner Scientist' - Lisa Foderaro, New York Times
• Encourage Kids to Reach for Stars - Maggie Aderin-Pocock, The Independent
• Are Single-Sex Schools Better for Eduation? - Hank Campbell, Science 2.0
• Teachers of Same Race as Principal Get Higher Pay - University of Missouri
• Falling SAT Scores Reveal Racial Gap - Brian Resnick, The Atlantic
• Texting Makes U Stupid! LOL! NOT :( - Niall Ferguson, Daily Beast
• Is 'Home Economics' Useful For Anything? - Jesse Rhodes, Smithsonian
• Don't Waste Money on SAT, ACT Prep Courses - Alec Campbell
• Less Educated Americans Turning Backs on Religion - EurekAlert!
• Is 'Self of Steam' Destroying Education? - Marc Cyr, Chronicle of Higher Ed.
• Out of Touch: Schools Don't Teach Typing - Anne Trubek, MIT Tech. Rev.
• Are Today's Children Less Creative? - Rachael Rettner, Live Science
• 'Khan Academy' Changing Rules of Education - Clive Thompson, Wired