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Nicole Martin

Opinion | Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office - The New York T... - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...girls-school-confidence.html

shared by Nicole Martin on 20 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • We need to ask: What if school is a confidence factory for our sons, but only a competence factory for our daughters?
  • First, parents and teachers can stop praising inefficient overwork, even if it results in good grades.
Meghan Cureton

How Exercise May Help the Memory Grow Stronger - The New York Times - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...-the-memory-grow-stronger.html

brain learning exercise movement

shared by Meghan Cureton on 21 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • Exercise may help the brain to build durable memories, through good times and bad.
  • In general, the stronger the messages between neurons, the sturdier and more permanent the memories they hold.
  • It was immediately clear that three days of chronic stress had reduced the effectiveness of the synapses in the stressed-out, sedentary animals, compared to those from the control mice. Their intracellular connections were much weaker.
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  • The unstressed runners, on the other hand, now had the strongest, busiest synapses, suggesting that their ability to learn and remember would be higher than in the other animals.
  • Perhaps most interesting, the animals that had run and also experienced chronic stress had synapses that resembled those from the normal, unstressed control group.
  • It is not yet clear, though, she says, how exercise changed the animals’ synapses at a molecular level.
Bo Adams

Everyone a Changemaker - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...maker-social-entrepreneur.html

social entrepreneurship agency changemakers #MustRead

shared by Bo Adams on 11 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • The central challenge of our time, Drayton says, is to make everyone a changemaker.
  • Once a kid has had an idea, built a team and changed her world, she’s a changemaker. She has the power. She’ll go on to organize more teams. She will always be needed.
  • Today, schools have to develop the curriculums and assessments to make the changemaking mentality universal.
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  • Social transformation flows from personal transformation.
  • Drayton wants to make universal a quality many people don’t even see: agency.
  • Bo Adams on 11 Feb 18
     
    "Today, schools have to develop the curriculums and assessments to make the changemaking mentality universal. They have to understand this is their criteria for success."
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