Tutoring was not invented; it evolved. It evolved for a purpose. Even though it has never been free, in some circumstances, it has been worth the cost since the dawn of humanity. That purpose and that cost are still very relevant topics in modern Western societies. Join me and Professor Sheina Lew-Levy of Durham University, UK as we probe the prehistoric origins of costly education itself. Dr. Lew-Levy is an anthropologist and psychologist who studies educational practices of forager (or hunter-gatherer) people in order to search for clues about the role teaching and learning played in our shared evolutionary origins.

A father and son share a story about a seemingly harmless decision that set the son on a disastrous path in their local public school and what they did about it. With guests, Jeremy and Isaiah Lewis, we’ll explore some of the real-life implications of relying on a delicate system that cannot systematically meet individual kids where they’re at.

Why do parents have such a big impact on which kids succeed in school and beyond?  One of the answers has to do with a simple but poorly understood concept called “parental scaffolding”. Developmental psychology professor, Stuart Hammond, joins us today to help explain research showing how parents impact their child’s brain development with decisions that often do not seem as important as they are.

Here's a link to the article we discussed.(Full article is behind a paywall)