Push students past simple recall into deeper thought and engagement by adding this short follow-up question to your repertoire.

Principals are being pulled in all sorts of directions, but it’s crucial that they prioritize what will do the most good for students.

The start of a unit is a great time to encourage students to see how what they’re learning applies in different situations.

A review of a dozen recent studies reveals that to design good tests, teachers need to consider bias, rigor, and mindset.

Encouraging students is not enough, says a new study—you actually have to raise your ratio of praise to reprimands dramatically, and that might mean keeping track.

Blackout poetry can aid students' reading comprehension by asking them to cross out the words in an article, leaving only words that summarize the text or a poem, writes English and history teacher Megan Kelly. In this blog post, Kelly offers other ideas, including scrambled sections in which Kelly cuts an article into sections and…

Sources of stress and support.

Children with a chronic health condition perform below the basic academic requirements in literacy and numeracy compared to their peers, a study from UNSW Sydney and University of Sydney has found.

The pandemic set off a great deal of expanding and contracting in the education sector. Some companies and services became obsolete without the availability of face-to-face experiences. Others found their footholds and took off. Outschool, a marketplace for small-group, live online classes for kids ages 3 to 18, certainly seems to have fallen into the…

Personalized education was already big pre-pandemic, but home schooling and digital instruction made more parents and teachers embrace the idea. With a shortage of human teachers, many schools jumped on the bandwagon of using technology that collects each child’s personal data and tailors content accordingly. Researchers, however, warn of three dangerous pitfalls.

“We know that teens’ use of social media increased during the pandemic, and along with this increase in time, we’ve seen more of both the positive and negative aspects of social media,” said Dr. Jacqueline Nesi, an assistant professor of psychology at Brown University who specializes in social media and adolescent development.