Dunce Capital doesn’t sound like a name that a company would want on its cap table, especially one that’s in the business of making people smarter. Yet there are eight education technology startups ...

The Dunce's Cap, once a source of ridicule and dread in classrooms across the nation, has been relaunched as a stylish item of haute couture in honour of the man after whom it was named, ...

We don’t use the word “dunce” much anymore. Too many psychological ramifications. Dunce caps were used as a disciplinary tool in the 19 th and early 20 th centuries, mostly in Europe and the U.S., for ...

In quarter-page ads in Manhattan newspapers, the New York Stock Exchange last week pictured a sad-faced businessman wearing a dunce cap. He told a sad story: “I tried to get rich quick. In my own ...