Each day, as students enter my biology classroom, someone will inevitably ask the question, “What are we doing today?” My response always attempts to shift their frame of thought from the ...

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Potty training is an amazing process. In order for a human being to effectively use a toilet, she needs to develop a marvelous array of skills: an internal awareness of pressure on her bladder, a ...

Perhaps, but the Collegiate Learning test may not be a very good method to evaluate education. The CLA, which is administered to both freshman and seniors in order to measure learning over a four-year ...

Colleges appear to be doing more to assess student learning, according to a report scheduled for release today by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The report, which is based on a ...

The coronavirus pandemic supercharged efforts to create new schools and school models. Learning pods, microschools, homeschool co-ops, hybrid homeschools, forest schools, and other efforts that defy ...

In preparing students for the world outside school, what skills are important to learn? This goes to the heart of the research addressed in the Deeper Learning Report released by the National Research ...

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform ...

The decision about which higher education institution to study at ranks among the more vital ones taken in life, but how those decisions are made – and the basis on which universities are ranked for ...