“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 ...

This apparent need for initial deception would certainly seem to deflate any hope that the Pygmalion Effect one day could change the way we parent our children, run schools and factories and even ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...