Senior reporter, Quartz, covering science of learning, future of schools and early childhood development. Ten-year veteran of the New York Times where I covered finance and schools. Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs ('99), Colorado College ('94), National Cathedral School ('90). Skier, runner, reader, mom. Bad knees.
There is a saying in education that you treasure what you measure. Going by the standardized tests that dominate schools in many countries around the world, we’re teaching children that w...
Fears about automation displacing workers around the world ranked high on the list of Things to Be Very Worried About at the World Economic Forum in January. “At the end of the day, we ha...
These days, it’s common for progressive executives to advocate for more flexible work hours. But demands for better work-life balance are also coming from some unexpected—and exciting—cor...
On Sunday, France’s education minister announced that mobile phones will be banned from primary, junior, and middle schools, calling it a matter of “public health.” While phones are alrea...
无论是体育运动、音乐演奏或是为了第二天的汇报做准备，坚持、专注都是取得成功的关键。然而，我们在生活中却很容易分心，小孩子尤其如此——现代科技易于获取、充满诱惑力，人们很容易就能从中获取愉悦感。
Perseverance, or the ability to stick with something, is critical to success in life, from academics and sports to music and getting around to that presentation for tomorrow’s meeting.
When you walk into École 42, a teacher-less coding school in Paris, a few things leap out at you: a killer collection of provocative street art, including an illustrated condom machine at...
Policy makers, tech executives, teachers, and parents are forever trying to find new ways to improve kids’ performance at school. Schools design and redesign curricula, teachers embrace a...
K. Anders Ericsson has spent 30 years studying people who are exceptional at what they do, and trying to figure out how they got to be so good. His conclusion: in most cases, talent doesn...
In my late 20s and early 30s, I thought of myself as an efficiency machine. I got up early to run most days, worked long hours, and frequently had breakfast meetings and evening drinks wi...
Vivienne Ming, a serial entrepreneur, theoretical neuroscientist, and Big Data specialist, likes crunching numbers. For three years, she has calculated the cost of being different—that is...
Björn Jeffery, co-founder of Toca Boca children’s apps, is evangelical about the benefits of unstructured play. “It’s being treated as something that is not very important,” he tells Quar...
It is no secret that the US isn’t much of a global leader when it comes togender parity in the workplace.
Advocates for gender parity like to argue that equality is not just about fairness, but also about better business results.
