More than a few U.S. universities, including Notre Dame and Rice, still give their dormitories a larger significance by, for example, allowing each “residential college” its own advisers and social events. The attachments formed tend to be so significant that alumni, upon meeting one another, frequently ask, “What college were you?” That sense of camaraderie…

Amid disagreement as to the credibility of the Mozart effect, does the widespread belief that those who study music generally perform better academically have any truth to it?

En omfattande finländsk forskning utmanar uppfattningen om att småbarn mår bäst av att bli omskötta i det egna hemmet.

Marginalisering och diskriminering är vanligt i de nordiska skolorna, och för att få bukt med problemen måste de lyftas upp både i politiken och praktiken. Också digitaliseringen utmanar jämlikheten i utbildningen, och fritt skolval försämrar den definitivt. Det konstaterar ett stort antal forskare i en rapport om jämlikhet och rättvisa i utbildningen.

The 4 Cs of 21st-century learning -- collaboration, critical thinking, communication and creativity -- can be developed in the high-school classroom, in part, by using technology, asserts Jennifer Osborne, a teacher in Indonesia. In this blog post, she shares three tools she uses in her classroom.

Lærere på specialskoler opfatter ikke nødvendigvis spyt, spark og slag som vold, men som udtryk for at eleven ikke trives. Derfor er forebyggelse af vold på specialskoler ikke et særskilt tiltag, men en integreret del af undervisningen, viser ny forskning.

The Carnegie Foundation is trying to build capacity within schools and districts for practitioner-led change using tools of improvement science.

Stik imod intentionerne foregår der eksklusion i skolen. I sit ph.d.-projekt har Gro Emmertsen Lund undersøgt sammenhængen mellem, hvordan skoler håndterer problemer, og hvordan eksklusionsprocesser udfolder sig.

Debating relevant topics in the news is a high-interest way to engage students in academic discourse bolstered by evidence.

When Katie Hurley asks her patients what they want from their parents, the response is almost always the same: "Listen and ask questions."

Neuroscientist Dr. Adam Gazzaley is looking for better ways to improve human cognition.