Assistant Village Idiot

An anonymous commenter linked to the 1869 Harvard entrance exam that was dug up by a NYTimes writer and made the rounds last year.  It look...

Back in 1988, Adragon DeMello was big news in the IQ societies. A math wizard graduating from a university in the California system at age...

I think the story of Billy Sidis , the purported prodigy with the highest IQ (250-300) ever known, is mostly fraudulent. I first read abou...

Steve Sailer has a proposal for eliminating some of the gaming of the college-entrance system by heightening reliance on the Educational Tes...

Whenever I'm linking to Sailer or VDare, people might already be prepared to wince, because it tends to be info that if true, we might k...

Via Maggie's. George Leef comment s on In The Basement Of The Ivory Tower. I don't know the book, so I'm not linking or recomm...

My son works with the youth group at his church outside Houston, and mentioned that some highschool players are indeed told by their coaches...

Via Volokh. Inside Higher Ed reports that Republican professors and Democrat professors have different patterns of grading. Republicans gi...

My wife put me on to this article at Tweenteacher describing what skills "business and college leaders" think should be taught fo...

xkcd, brilliant as usual The short version is to read researcher Peter Gray's The Seven Sins of Our Forced Educational System. Exactly ...

Anyone who has seen a teenager in the grip of an obsession knows that they can work harder than most people. Like a garage tinkerer who wil...

Liberal Arts education, and Stanley Fish's essay excoriating UPhoenix, are under discussion over at Maggie's . I have only a half-f...

I know, I know, TED is so SWPL, but I do like it. Bethany, who used to comment here as bsking and is personally known to some of you, sent t...