Be Smart

Interested in how kids learn? How you learned when you were younger? Thinking of how to teach and raise children? How about guiding supervisees? Here's a few articles for you:

1) Want to raise smart, successful kids? Research suggests focusing on effort instead of intelligence or ability leads to success:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids&print=true

2) Gladwell has a New Yorker article on IQ tests and the conclusions that can be drawn about the people taking them:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/12/17/071217crbo_books_gladwell

3) For the first time since inception, girls had a clean sweep of the Siemens Math, Science and Technology competition:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/nyregion/04siemens.html