My guest poster, Steve Peha, founder of Teaching That Makes Sense, Inc., comments on recent psychological research showing that kids spend more time using the five least effective learning techniques ...

Fostering basic social skills for kids is now more important than ever as school gradually returns to in-person. It’s been about three weeks since your children returned to school buildings. How is ...

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Research has shown that students from higher socio-economic backgrounds tend to do better in school than kids from poorer backgrounds. Ron Ferguson, a Harvard researcher and educator who has spent ...

If there is one prevalent assumption that stands in the way of deeper learning, it is that you have to do “the basics” before you can engage in deeper learning. We see this idea in various guises. One ...

Aspiring teachers are unfamiliar with basic principles of learning science and should learn how to connect those principles to practice, according to a new report from Deans for Impact. Last fall, ...

Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in “Hour of code” activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology and starting learning that ...

One of the roles our education system is supposed to play is to prepare kids to be responsible citizens, with the skills needed to be successful in adulthood. All of the various classes — starting in ...

Teachers are opening up about how more and more children are lacking in life skills – a decline they’ve noticed happening over the years. In a Reddit post titled “many kids cannot do basic things ...

STEM-based schoolwork is a key part of your kid’s curriculum, but encouraging genuine enthusiasm for science, technology, engineering, and math that extends beyond the classroom requires more than a ...

Ah, the good old days! Remember when parents had a whole bag of tricks to get their kids ready for the world? Things have ...