Students do better when lessons are tailored to individual learning styles—but not so much that it's worth the investment of time and money. That's the main finding of a recent peer-reviewed study I ...

Ninth graders Sophia, 14, and Elle, 15, start the day looking a wee bit ... overwhelmed. “Right now, we’re just trying to figure out where to go,” said Sophia. “It’s, like, very confusing.” After all, ...

In education, as in psychology, clarity matters. Yet in everyday conversations about teaching and learning, terms like learning theory and pedagogy are often used interchangeably. Phrases such as “We ...

I differ with the lessons that were drawn in the recent article on the impact of extracurriculars on campus life at Harvard (“For some, attending classes is lower priority: Extracurriculars may take a ...

I have worked in many different states and in many different learning environments throughout my 19-year career as an educator. For the past 13 years I have been honored to teach at Agora Cyber ...

On an overpass in North Portland overlooking Interstate 5, Kathryn Nock and Jordan Stokes are taking stock of the neighborhood, including nearby Harriet Tubman Middle School. “It’s kind of hard to ...

Sutton believes Reinforcement Learning is the Path to to Intelligence via Experience. Sutton defines intelligence as the computational part of the ability to achieve goals. It is rooted in a stream of ...

Learning Lessons How professors are encouraging students to buy into the project of learning. Getting students to buy into the project of a course has become a more urgent challenge in recent years, ...