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 ...

Emily Hanford’s 2022 podcast, Sold a Story, was heart-wrenching for educators. 1 Hanford confronted dedicated, well-meaning teachers of young children with a devastating reality: They had been ...

IntroductionWhen you see the same sentence repeatedly, you may start to feel it is true simply because it is familiar, regardless of whether the content is actually correct. The phenomenon where repea ...

Teaching is a powerful tool that can be a transformative agent, promoting social changes when used correctly. To learn how to teach, however, you first must understand how people learn. Transforming ...

More than a decade ago, I reviewed the The Science of Learning, a slim report published by the then-new advocacy group Deans for Impact. At the time, it felt like an intervention, nearly an epiphany.

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 ...

Every summer, I find myself in conversations with teachers and administrators trying to figure out why their current pedagogical practices are or aren’t working. So, once I came across Harnessing the ...

I have to admit it: I’ve always been a nerd. I loved school. I loved university. And yes, I’m seriously contemplating a PhD, not for career advancement, but simply for the joy of diving deep into ...

As the divide between resourced and under-resourced schools grows—greatly exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic—what’s working and what’s not in education has been debated many times over in popular ...

“I’m not a math person,” “Math stresses me out,” “I’m not good at Math.” Have you heard any of these sentiments from your students? You aren’t alone, and it doesn’t have to stay this way. With the ...