In Boston this summer, 250 organizations are collaborating to provide 25,000 young people with up to five weeks of summer learning across the city. The school district, city government, and nonprofits ...

Spending time outdoors and engaging in active play has all kinds of benefits for young children. It encourages gross motor skill development, helps improve coordination and balance, and can contribute ...

Digital technologies bring the science of learning to a critical crossroad. With a lack of high-quality, evidence-based data ...

The five-year project, Implementing Principles from the Science of Learning within Educational Practice, will investigate both students and teachers in settings that range from elementary school to ...

Popularized by educational theorist and adult education pioneer Malcolm Knowles (1913-1997), andragogy is a philosophy that emphasizes learning through lived experience, applied skills, discussion and ...

Source: Zjarral1 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] Learning new skills can be a great way to keep an aging brain in shape. How can ...

Getting older often involves a series of challenges, such as cognitive decline, social isolation, and late-life depression. Memory decline, especially decline in episodic memory and working memory, is ...

If teaching were like following a recipe, it would be a much easier job. Unlike the reliable and straightforward process of baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies, practices that work in a morning ...

One of the most robust backward design models developed for higher education is L. Dee Fink’s integrated course design. Fink outlines a streamlined process for designing academic courses, divided into ...

In July 2020, for the first time, we were able to compare the math abilities of students in and out of school across 13 countries spanning Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Psychometricians developed ...

At the core of this self-discovery process, I’m starting to learn more about what it means to lead from the heart. I’ve actually created an acronym for “HEART” to represent the things that we expect ...