Cathy N. Davidson

November 21, 2011 – 3:00am By Scott Jaschik The University of California at Davis has pledged an investigation and has suspended two police officers, but video of campus police using pepper spray against students who were nonviolent and stationary has students, faculty members and civil libertarians stunned and outraged. Read more.

Author Interview: Cathy N. Davidson on 36 Views of Mount Fuji Cathy N. Davidson, the American scholar and author of more than twenty books, honors us by giving an interview on her book 36 Views of Mount Fuji and her discovery of herself on the soil of Japan. Her other books are Revolution and The…

No Child Left Behind: The Economic Motive of National Education Policy By Cathy Davidson I’ve often thought about how our national educational policy of No Child Left Behind, passed in 2002, reinforces and connects to the increasing income disparity in the United States.  Some of the economic implications of NCLB are obvious, such as the…

Q&A: Cathy Davidson on the Brain Science of Attention and Transforming Schools and Workplaces in the Digital Age By Barbara Ray 10.13.11 | In Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn,” Cathy Davidson has offered an antidote to the anxieties about the effects…

Plug in – but tune in, too 13 October 2011 An iPad or Kindle does not magically improve education, says Cathy Davidson Because it’s autumn, US universities are busy announcing what new technology they will offer new students. Across the country, institutions of higher education are dispensing Kindles and iPads in the hope that they…

The Three Biggest Myths About Distracted Youth by Cathy Davidson Whenever I lecture on the science of attention, I hear the same litany of fears from parents and grandparents worried about the distracted state of those born after 1990.  Pundits have made an industry of telling us how the Internet has made youth distracted, how…