High school science teachers can design tasks that not only develop students’ science skills but also change how they see ...

Matt Gewolb, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Institutional Strategy for New York Law School. Courtesy photo Law schools can and should serve as engines of social and economic mobility ...

Educators don’t need to choose between building students’ knowledge and teaching reading comprehension strategies. The question isn’t whether to teach strategies—it’s how to do it and when. “Are we ...

To stop the spread of COVID-19, many colleges and universities implemented vaccine requirements for their students returning to campus. Now, these policies are less common for the COVID-19 vaccine, ...

The A–F grading scale has long been the cornerstone of measuring success in K-12 schools, but educators and researchers continue to question whether those letters truly reflect what students know, and ...

There is a longstanding debate about whether traditional grading—letter grades based on a student’s content knowledge, classroom behavior, and extra credit—appropriately measures student success.

Editor’s note: This article is part of Teaching the Adult Learner: Practical Strategies for Higher Ed Success, a six-part series exploring how colleges can better support nontraditional students.

Calculus is historically a gatekeeper course for science, engineering, technology and math fields: if a student fails calculus, it’s do-not-pass go. Even non-STEM majors who enroll in calculus face ...

A new study from a pair of Penn State researchers finds that passing the US Citizenship Test as a high school graduation requirement does nothing to improve youth voter turnout. Within the last decade ...