“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

The past influences policymaking. Kenya’s education history shows that by subordinating practical skills and individual learner needs to high-stakes examination, the 8-4-4 system of education failed ...

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Each semester, University of Vermont students studying STEM — science, technology, engineering, or math — are trained to deliver experiential STEM activities to Vermont youth. They become STEM ...

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Students should not be left to struggle with routine math needed to manage their finances, bake a cake or do a home repair.

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Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...