October 5 is World Teachers’ Day. How about paying some attention to how teachers experience their work? Do teachers in Finland have more autonomy when compared to those in the US?
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There are plenty of signs that teaching as a vocation is in trouble in the US.
Why does emotional learning matter for children?
Conservative religious families turn to homeschooling as a way to ensure that their children will grow up to be like them. Does it work?
Kids today face a variety of digital stressors –from negotiating how much communication to have with close friends to digital abuse.
Students at American universities are spending more and more years on completing their PhDs, only to find there are fewer and fewer tenure-track jobs.
Students are going hungry on college campuses. The latest survey shows that four in 10 University of California students do not have access to nutritious food.
Slideshows, when designed right, can be a useful part of online instruction. But they shouldn’t be the main, or the only, method of instruction.
Students are creating ‘multiple personalities’ to cheat on MOOCs. How do they do that? What are its implications?
Academics are using Twitter in classrooms and finding that it leads to some real results.
Universities across the country are increasingly buying into the idea of sustainability science as an academic discipline. There are 118 such programs today. What’s the point?
Obama’s college scorecard could help students be more discerning when choosing colleges. But could it skew information? Will elite colleges rise to the top?
Changing the design of a classroom can get more girls interested in computer science. Here’s how.
Family meals – with lively conversation, storytelling and discussions of books and the tales they contain – feed children’s literacy skills.
African-American children tell stories that are vivid, elaborate, and rich in imagery. These skills help support their early literacy skills. How can schools take advantage of this?
Professors help students question their beliefs and assumptions. How should they build the trust?
Academia suffers from a stunning lack of diversity. Only 6% of academics in higher education are black. What are some of the experiences of black faculty?
Dillard University, a historically black college, asked students to wear ties and suits on the first day of class. But if history is a guide, this conformity could actually enable radical thought.
Children as young as six can show math anxiety. What’s the link between parents’ math anxiety and their children’s math anxiety?
Academically advanced students from countries such as India are spending much more time studying STEM subjects. Should US kids work harder to compete?
Despite the popular belief, your first instincts may not be correct.
Parent involvement with kids’ homework can have both positive and negative effects. So, what should parents and educators do?
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.
Students heading back to school face a wide variety of choices in housing. Multiple studies have shown how on-campus living can enhance learning.
There were only 3,964 seniors in the graduating New Orleans class of 2015, which represents only half of the original cohort of babies. What happened to the missing children?