New York state has taken an important and commendable step forward. With the Board of Regents’ adoption of a statewide ...

Digital platforms can help make reading aloud independently more engaging and get kids excited about literacy practice.

Google wants to leverage AI to help kids get a more “personal learning experience.” In the coming months, Google Classroom is getting a “practice sets” feature that surfaces assistance and other ...

What goes on in the classroom often has little to do with what scientists have discovered about how kids learn. The obstacles are intellectual, emotional, and behavioral. Over the last several decades ...

Writing rough drafts, discussing ideas with peers, and revising are familiar activities in English language arts classes where students can develop their ideas, revise their work, and augment their ...

When a colleague invited Joy Kirr to a professional development day featuring the Scottish design thinking expert Ewan McIntosh she didn’t think it would be life changing. She was flattered to be ...

Research culture starts in the classroom, where enquiry becomes a habit and curiosity drives learning. Kashan Pirzada offers guidance on small, everyday teaching practices to cultivate it In an ...

This post is by Dr. Cecelia Traugh, Dean of Bank Street College Graduate School of Education. Teacher quality makes an important difference in the emotional and cognitive growth of children. As debate ...

If you spend time with a young child it soon becomes clear that the astronomer Carl Sagan was right when he said: “Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist…”. Spend time with a typical ...

This qualitative case study looks closely at an elementary teacher who participated in professional development experiences that helped her develop a hybrid practice of using inquiry-based science to ...

A new study tracking the classroom impact of the No Child Left Behind Act in California, Georgia, and Pennsylvania suggests that teachers are adjusting their teaching practices in response to the ...

While this problem has received considerable attention, no clear explanation has emerged. In my recent PhD thesis, I considered a crucial, but often overlooked, piece of the puzzle – the curriculum ...