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 ...

“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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Imagine someone telling you they know you are going to succeed before you even ...

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” ...

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 ...