“High expectations” is the mantra of today’s school reformers, who are convinced that the trouble with public education is that students have been allowed to slide by with little effort. Their version ...

Linda: The myth of Pygmalion is told in Ovid's Metaphorphoses. Pygmalion was a gifted young sculptor in Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had carved. Pygmalion had strong misgivings about women ...

"Good" teacher behaviors are defined as those teacher behaviors experts judged likely to increase pupil reading performance. The effect of an increase in the "good" teacher behaviors on the ...

The critics eventually quieted down, and the Pygmalion Effect became dogma. The Spruce School experiment, now a classic lesson in psychology and education classes, has since inspired legions of ...

A new study from the Center for American Progress concludes that teachers’ expectations for their students are strongly correlated with students’ graduation rates. Unfortunately, the study also says ...

Through recent day-to-day mass media and Internet sites, we often hear of two reciprocal but similar theories called the "butterfly effect" and the "Pygmalion effect." The butterfly effect is the ...

American inventor Charles F. Kettering said, "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." The Pygmalion effect essentially posits that the greater the expectations that ...

When we expect certain behaviours of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behaviour more likely to occur. Robert Rosenthal George Bernard Shaw, in his famous play, Pygmalion, ...

Why are some brokerage offices within the same network consistently profitable while others are consistently unprofitable? It's not, as you might suspect, simply because some offices are better ...