Summers got an earful, if not directly, as Spelke described in several interviews and in a high - profile public debate with her colleague and friend Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker
how voluminous evidence from decades of research shows little if any inherently sex - based differences in infants or toddlers.
I Then presented to Julie the
voluminous evidence laid out by Alfie Kohn in The Homework Myth which showed
how excessive homework actually doesn't bring any academic benefit, that it just frustrates and makes parents and children alike miserable, and can teach them to actually hate school.