By rooting their professional development in learning science, this district helped teachers figure out which strategies to use more frequently, and which to retire.

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. The thing that ...

Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. So what can educators, policymakers and any ...

Learning is simple, right? It’s the process of moving information from out there — from a textbook, a company report, a musical score — to in here, inside our heads, and making that knowledge our own.

“I’m not a math person,” “Math stresses me out,” “I’m not good at Math.” Have you heard any of these sentiments from your students? You aren’t alone, and it doesn’t have to stay this way. With the ...

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 ...

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 ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Using Learning Science To Analyze the Risks and Benefits of AI in K-12 Education Before adopting AI tools, it is important that schools think critically about whether these tools will further divorce ...