We know more today about how humans learn than ever before, so why do most classrooms still look like they did a century ago? Decades of research in cognitive science, neuroscience and educational ...

Around the world, many teachers still believe longstanding—but long-debunked—myths about learning and cognition. A study published this month in the journal Trends in Neuroscience and Education finds ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...

Congress ended funding for Reading First in 2009. The more recent science of reading movement, though, has been propelled by ...

We hear a lot these days about the "Science of Reading" and, increasingly, the "Science of Math." And while focusing on the specific evidence-based practices within these domains is crucial, it's high ...

In my 29 years of teaching, I have often reflected on the balance between memorization and understanding. I recall one conversation where a math teacher shared the belief that “memorization no longer ...

Before adopting AI tools, it is important that schools think critically about whether these tools will further divorce students from how their brains are primed to learn. A teacher sits at a laptop ...

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 ...

What's the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables, or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these ...