Explore today's thought-provoking quote by B.F. Skinner on the nature of failure and the importance of perseverance in personal development. Learn how adopting a resilient mindset can help in ...

Phil McCrae has written a fascinating history of “innovation” in education that should be required reading for everyone, most especially journalists attending this week’s Education Writers Association ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the years following World War II, ...

Adam Smith said that the wealth of a nation consists not in the gold in its vaults but in the productivity of its citizens. Cool! We increase productivity by building our human capital through ...

B.F. Skinner is not nearly as famous as Freud, and if you Google his name you won't find nearly as many hits as you will even for Jean Piaget. And yet it could be argued that his influence on ...

While I appreciate David P. Barash’s fine essays, I take exception to his latest (“B.F. Skinner, Revisited,” The Chronicle Review, April 1). In it, he manages to misrepresent the views of not one but ...

If textbook publishers and ed-tech startups have their way, American classrooms may soon become very different learning environments. A new wave of software that draws on 21 st-century technologies ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This motorized instrument contains a ...

When I was a little kid, I had a weird babysitter. She was very pale and thin, with dark hair and a tentative smile. She wore blouses with big trumpet sleeves, out of which poked her bony white wrists ...