The 100-Year-Old Teaching Method That’s Outperforming Modern Preschools (and Saving Money)

A landmark national study found that children attending public Montessori preschools outperformed their peers in reading, ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Researchers Find Executive Function Tests May Be Culturally Biased

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive function abilities, challenging the accuracy ...
Healthline

Everything You Need to Know About Executive Function

Your working memory, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation are core components of executive function (EF), an interrelated set of mental skills that lay the foundation for advanced cognitive ...
Phys.org

Study questions whether executive function assessments measure universal abilities or school-based skills

Executive function—top-down processes by which the human mind controls behavior, regulating thoughts and actions—have long been studied using a standard set of tools, with these assessments being ...
Santa Clara University

Executive Function Skills Explained

"The phrase “executive function” refers to a set of skills. These skills underlie the capacity to plan ahead and meet goals, display self-control, follow multiple-step directions even when interrupted ...