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Talent Show In The Therapy Room

A patient has our Naples-based psychiatrist reflect on trades and their assorted skills.

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Society

A Cool Takedown Of The Misfit Genius Stigma

People with particularly high IQs are often viewed as difficult and socially awkward, a new survey suggests. But in reality, they’re not so different from the rest of us.

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Society

Why The Chinese Are So Good, But Rarely Great

A surprising take on China’s approach to education, and what it means for the country’s future.

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Impact: Education Innovation Society

From Japan To Italy: Tour OECD’s First-Ever National Rankings Of Adult Skills

PARIS – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), whose global ranking of schooling levels has become a reliable source of national pride and shame, has now set out to measure how different countries in the developed world stack up in adult skills. (Read this piece by OECD’s Andreas Schleicher, who has spearheaded both […]

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Impact: Education Innovation Society

A Skills Manifesto: Why Education (Not Finance) Is The Only Lasting Economic Solution

PARIS – Everywhere skills transform lives, generate prosperity and promote social inclusion. And if there’s one lesson the global economy has taught us over the last few years, it’s that we cannot simply bail ourselves out of a crisis — stimulus plans and printing money can never be a lasting solution to our economic problems. […]

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Count Them In Or Out? China’s Next Generation Of Job Hunters

Ever since 2002, when the first batch of students graduated after national expansion of university enrollment, the difficulty for educated young people to find employment has become a hot topic each summer. The total number of graduates has grown every year. With 6.99 million fresh graduates this year, the number is hitting another record high. […]

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