In that experiment and hundreds of similar subsequent ones, the expectations Cantello and her fellow teachers had for their students were fruitful only when their behaviors were subconsciously driven, ...

Poor Professor Henry Higgins. Whatever would he make of a world where the Queen’s English has come undone by emojis, acronyms and the scourge that is uptalk? Still, George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” ...

“High expectations” is the mantra of today’s school reformers, who are convinced that the trouble with public education is that students have been allowed to slide by with little effort. Their version ...

A new study from the Center for American Progress concludes that teachers’ expectations for their students are strongly correlated with students’ graduation rates. Unfortunately, the study also says ...

Today's NY Times (Sun 11 Oct) had an interesting article by Nicholas Kristof about why Asians do so well academically and economically in the U.S. ("The Asian Advantage"). Unfortunately Kristof's ...

Linda: The myth of Pygmalion is told in Ovid's Metaphorphoses. Pygmalion was a gifted young sculptor in Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had carved. Pygmalion had strong misgivings about women ...

SAN DIEGO — For some theatergoers, George Bernard Shaw’s classic 1913 play “Pygmalion” is “My Fair Lady” without the songs and traditional romantic ending. But returning to the source of Frederick ...