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AI could change the way we measure kids' intelligence

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...

If you want your child to get a good job, let them play more

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...

A group of German workers just won a 28-hour week to help work-life balance

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...

France is banning mobile phones in schools

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...

想让孩子注意力集中？打扮成蝙蝠侠吧！

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。

Kids perform better during boring tasks when dressed as Batman, new research finds

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.

This Parisian coding school is free. Oh, and it has no teacher

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...

This Stanford researcher has designed a 15-minute study hack to boost grades

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...

Is talent important, or does practice makes perfect?

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...

Want to improve your productivity? Have kids

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...

This is the cost of not being a straight man

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...

Is there a digital solution to giving children more unstructured, creativity-enhancing play?

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...

This is how workplace gender parity looks around the world

It is no secret that the US isn’t much of a global leader when it comes togender parity in the workplace.

Why having more women leaders increases company profits

Advocates for gender parity like to argue that equality is not just about fairness, but also about better business results.

It pays to be a woman in banking – but not nearly as much as a man