Conventional wisdom suggests that better schools and advanced education for all is the yellow brick road to solve many of our nation’s problems. But let’s play Dorothy and peek behind the curtain to see what the Wizard of Educational Oz is concealing.
The latest study by the Department of Education has, once again, found that there is [...]

 . . . you may have become an architect, rather than a lawyer, or an anthropologist, rather than a computer scientist.
The brain and behavioral science community is bringing forth exciting new evidence that nature plays the dominant role in shaping our talents and traits.  Studies of identical twins raised apart in different environments turn out to [...]

What makes us good at some things and terrible at other things?  Nature and Nurture both play a role.  Behavioral genetics is unraveling the mystery locked in our DNA code and neuroscience is finding the same evidence in our brain circuits.  We aren’t born as blank slates, as conventionally thought.  We each have some of our own pre-existing hardwiring, and, we have a [...]