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 ...

Frederick County, situated about 50 miles north of Washington, D.C., and 50 miles west of Baltimore, is a diverse district with 69 schools and 48,000 students, and one of only a handful to use ...

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 ...

Every year, in elementary and middle schools across the country, classrooms are becoming more diverse. Teachers able to operate in such as environment are becoming necessary to ensure all students are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Michael J. Dillon and Prof Laura Bowater examine the science of gamification to transform biomedical education through ...

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 ...

Though some might see video games as a distraction, a recent study from the University of Georgia suggests they can actually ...

New Zealand's draft science curriculum, released last month, promises to advance "knowledge-rich" learning.