Imagine that it’s 10:07 on a Tuesday morning in a public school classroom, and a little girl has her nose in a fiction book. Subconsciously,

In 1998, Jaak Panksepp, a then-unknown neuroscientist, discovered that rats laugh. In his lab, he “tickled” the bellies of rats with the end of his

Well-meaning parents can say, “Just do the algebra – it’s good for you!” in the same way they might command a kid to eat vegetables

“I’m very pro-having a well-rounded liberal arts education as an individual, I’m not pro- that being a requisite to start working, I’m not pro that

Look around the playground on a summer afternoon. Some kids are playing a competitive round of tetherball. Others swing or slide, going doggedly up and

In 2021, a freshman at Alpha High stopped taking math classes. She told her parents, “I’m not going to do math or science. I’m a