What’s the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather riddle-like answer: It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know. To put it in more ...

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Educating used to be about explaining concepts – now it’s about designing experiences to help the brain develop understanding. Find advice to tweak your teaching here ...

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 ...

There are no silver bullets in education but if there ever was a secret weapon educators can deploy to improve student learning, it’s metacognition. Metacognition is a meta-level awareness of ...

"And understanding how learning works in the healthy brain is critical to understanding how learning goes wrong in various brain disorders." The new findings bring to mind an anecdote for Dr. Gadagkar ...

Around the country, school and university students are hitting the books in preparation for exams. If you are in this position, you may find yourself trying to memorise information that you first ...

This episode is part of “The Young American Scientists,” an editorially independent project that was produced with financial support from Regeneron. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science ...

Let’s start with the bad news: Maine does not have great education statistics, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly a quarter of young children live in a childcare desert. Over a ...