Poor Professor Henry Higgins. Whatever would he make of a world where the Queen’s English has come undone by emojis, acronyms and the scourge that is uptalk? Still, George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” ...

New CAP research makes clear the importance of high teacher expectations for all students. Jimmy Guevara, 17, left, stands next to the board taking notes during his 10th-grade math class as teacher ...

In the 1960s, a researcher lied to prove students would rise to meet their teachers’ expectations. But no one could replicate those results without also lying — until now. Beverly Cantello didn’t ...

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 ...

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 ...