The secret to learning from a robot, as discovered by two Japanese researchers, is to have it appear weak and feeble: Shizuko Matsuzoe and Fumihide Tanaka at the Universit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/31/Weak-and-Feeble-Robots-Make-The-Best-Teachers/Is college worth the cost? Earlier this we... ...University released a report about how education levels impact employment prospects:... ...1.6 million. Those with some college education or an Associate’s degree have recovered...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/18/College-Grads-vs-High-School-Grads-in-The-Great-Recession/If you think about it…school really only needs to teach people how to use Google. bit.ly/MrllJe @imadepoopstoday— Team Twaggies (@twaggies) August 7, 2012...
https://www.neatorama.com/twaggies/2012/08/07/no-858-imadepoopstoday/Can we boost a teacher's academic... ...it away if they fail. Thanks to education reformers such as former D.C. schools chancellor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/27/the-reversible-bonus-a-mean-but-effective-way-to-boost-teachers-performance/Got a C+ in chemistry? Most people would tell you to try and study harder nex time, but not in this case: a high school student and his mom are suing the school district over a C+ grade he g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/26/the-c-chemistry-grade-lawsuit/Straight A's and a 4.50 GPA, accepted to Stanford with an engineering internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to boot but that's not enough for some parents. No, they wanted their dau...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/28/the-valedictorian-lawsuit/Many students can't wait to be don... ...l and took menial jobs to pay for the education and just made a point of getting more degrees and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/20/man-pursues-his-30th-college-degree/Randall Munroe knows how hard it is these days to select your college major. He wrote a little song about it ...well, he wrote a comic about it that you can sing to the tune of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/07/every-majors-terrible/Passing the national exam is so competitive in China that students resort to finding an edge - any edge - that can help them pass. This photo, purportedly of high schoolers given "amino acid"...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/07/iv-drips-for-chinese-students-cramming-for-college-entrance-exam/Ah, kindergarten. You may remember it as a "happy land of building blocks and singalongs," but not anymore. In this interesting article over at The Boston Globe, Patti Hartigan...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/26/high-pressure-kindergarten/

