A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

A new book on brain science provides tips that teachers should ideally learn during their training. An engaging new book about brain science can help teachers make their classroom practice more ...

We argue in Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education that the history and the future of higher education can be understood as moving along a path toward convergence between innovations ...

Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. So what can educators, policymakers and any ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. The thing that ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

The reading wars have become a tool used to further polarize and divide an already fraught educational climate, and the victims of this war are our nation’s students. At the forefront of conversations ...

One of the most fundamental skills students learn in school is still at the forefront of the national education conversation—how kids learn to read. The “science of reading” movement pushed forward in ...

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

HOUSTON – There have been a lot of changes since the state-appointed superintendent Mike Miles took over the Houston Independent School District and introduced the NES model to several campuses. Since ...