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Reassuring Kids About Failure Boosts Scores, Says Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Education News, Testing, Video, Education, Teacher Evaluations, Psychological Research, Claude Steele, France, Standardized Tests, Standardized Testing, Stereotype Threat, Psychology, Education Reform, Teachers, Education News

Every day for the last four years, Leah Alcala has greeted her Berkeley, California, middle-school students with an exercise she calls "my favorite no...

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The Real Cost Of Low Confidence

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Decision-Making, Kathryn Heath, Harvard Busines Review, Feminism, Lawrence Summers, Shankar Vedantam, Mary Murphy, Gender Roles, Gender Gap, Claude Steele, James Gross, US. Dept. Of Labor, Jill Flynn, Mary Davis Holt, Wage Gap, Erin Cech, Engineers, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

It's not that women can't make the grade, the study found. It's that, when it comes to venturing out into the workplace, they don't think they'll fit.

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"Too Pretty to Do Homework?"

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Mary Murphy, Decision-Making, Claude Steele, Jcpenney, Justin Beiber, Feminism, James Gross, Shankar Vedantam, Culture, Identity, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

The shirt's slogan, emblazoned front and center in colorful girly writing, was this: "I'm Too Pretty to Do Homework, So My Brother Has to Do it For Me." Color me outraged.

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Obama and Me

Trey Ellis | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Obama, Obama Reelection, Claude Steele, Obama Black Voters, Obama Administration, Obama Black Votes, Obama Debt Ceiling, Obama Black Vote, Obama 2012 Election, Obama 2012, Black Voices News
Trey Ellis

Despite the many missteps of this first term, I am hopeful that in a second, freed from the need to ever again campaign, President Obama will finally help usher in change that we can believe in.

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