How to succeed in college with a disability
For many disabled students, college is the first time that they're put to the test of making their own way. The experience can be challenging, but there are strategies to help ease the way.
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Do challenges make school seem impossible or worthwhile?
A high school science test, a Psych 101 course, long job applications: Sometimes it's hard to be motivated to succeed. As it turns out, how you respond to difficulty and ease can make all the difference.
Challenging the status quo in mathematics: Teaching for understanding
Math instruction is stuck in the last century. How can we change teaching methods to move past rote memorization and help students develop a more meaningful understanding – and be better at math?
How strong academic support can change university students’ lives
Students from South Africa's public school system battle to cope with the rigorous demands of any university degree without genuine, committed support.
How your college friendships help you – or don’t
College is a time for friendships. But how can students best leverage the power of those friendships? First, by learning how those networks work.
Should I grade-skip my gifted child?
About two out of seven children are likely bored in their classrooms, as they aren't learning much that is new. Should these children skip grades? What's the evidence on grade-skipping?
Making college matter
Two simple yet powerful things students can do to ensure that they have a transformative undergraduate experience, no matter where they go to college.
Starting college? Here’s why you should think about a gap year
Many students are in the process of deciding whether to take a gap year -- a year between high school and starting college. What does evidence tell us about taking a gap year?
Is a tuition-free policy enough to ensure college success?
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have called for making colleges and universities debt-free or tuition-free. Disadvantaged students need more than free college to achieve success.
Universities must do more to become a home for vulnerable students
Students from poorer backgrounds feel anxious, ashamed and stressed in the middle-class environment of a university.
Do school vouchers improve results? It depends on what we ask
A recent study on school vouchers shows that the program may be harming kids' academic achievement, at least in math. What's missing here? Are test scores the only way to judge a program?
Why lecturers need to know all about their students’ lives, fears and hopes
Coming to understand students' individual stories allows lecturers to guide, mentor and support them.
Laying pathways for greater success in education for Indigenous Australians
If we're serious about closing the gap in Indigenous education, our new research shows the value of building better bridges into universities and vocational education.
Teaching assistants like me? Here’s what could change
Can the race of a teaching assistant have an impact on student grades?
How an art history class became more engaging with Twitter
Academics are using Twitter in classrooms and finding that it leads to some real results.
When parents with high math anxiety help with homework, children learn less
Children as young as six can show math anxiety. What's the link between parents’ math anxiety and their children’s math anxiety?
Here’s what you need to know about homework and how to help your child
Parent involvement with kids' homework can have both positive and negative effects. So, what should parents and educators do?
Homework could have an impact on kids’ health. Should schools ban it?
One in 10 children report spending multiple hours on homework. There are no benefits of this additional work, but it could leave a negative impact on health.
Great things happen when learners are taken seriously
What happens when a school doesn't have many resources but teachers and the principal really listen to learners' ideas and fears? The results, research finds, can be remarkable.
ATAR found to be a poor predictor of how well students do at uni
New research has found that results at high school aren't good predictors of how students will perform at university.
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