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What weak students really learn in school

What if the only thing weak students ever learned in school was that they were no good? What if the constant pounding of evaluation or the social rejection by society was an unwanted brainstorming of a segment of our student population?(continue this article)

Casualties principle: exporting America

What if unemployment was not significantly higher than it was thirty years ago? What if the new feeling of emergency was coming not so much from a statistical point of view but rather from a change in the social status of the future unemployed?(continue this article)

Casualties principle: weak students in school

What if what we did to help them did not? What if what we did sometimes even made things worse? What if, deep down, we did not really care mostly because of the casualties principle?(continue this article)

Venting frustration on the current state of profiling

At the Open Mind Institute we are constantly on the lookout for new information or research to share with our subscribers. For a number of reasons it is sometimes a hard and frustrating endeavor.One of the reasons is that there seems to be a trend in research psychology not to call profiling what clearly is, thus making it that much more difficult for profilers to gather datas...(continue this article)

Teenage rebellion

What if the whole concept of a "teenager rebellion phase" was only a theory? What if the whole thing simply did not exist? What if the theory was accepted just because it is convenient? What if no serious studies backed it up?(continue this article)