It is a leap from showing socioeconomic-status influences on IQ to arguing that school programs have the same kinds of effects. A recent study of IQ concludes that environment is more important than ...

1991: As I settle into my seat in the back of the classroom, I can’t take my eyes off the perfect girl. She is the lead in every play, the soloist in every choir performance, and the winner of every ...

For all the debates around the most effective teachers, curriculua, school structures, and so on, a massive new research analysis finds that formal education, in general, remains “the most consistent, ...

More schooling -- and the more mentally challenging problems tackled in those schools -- may be the best explanation for the dramatic rise in IQ scores during the past century, often referred to as ...

A story that made the rounds this week (I wrote about it for COSMOS, but it went as big as the BBC) was the UCL study that linked IQ swings in adolescence to specific structural changes in the brain.

More schooling—and the more mentally challenging problems tackled in those schools—may be the best explanation for the dramatic rise in IQ scores during the past century, often referred to as the ...