The ancient Romans personified luck as a gorgeous, jealous goddess named Fortuna. Whenever they would see a situation that involved chaos and danger, they would begin acting boldly to impress her and win her favor. This attitude, which reversed the normal human reaction to risk, has been memorialized in Latin phrase, audaces fortuna iuvat, or “fortune favors […]
Aha! It is one of the most pleasurable moments when working with someone one-on-one. You wait, and wait… they struggle… and then, the lightbulb. Oh wow! I have seen it in many different situations: a student finally grasping both the power and simplicity of a math concept; someone finally understanding a pattern in their personality
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Statisticians who study education talk in terms of effect sizes, or standardized units. In education research, effect sizes of 0.2, or two tenths of a standardized unit (in response to a treatment), attract considerable attention. Many prominent professors report effect sizes of 0.1 or even 0.05. The early childhood interventions that President Obama touted had
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