A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

As more states and districts are embracing the “science of reading,” some educators and advocates have raised the question: Will these methods work for English-language learners? The “science of ...

THEEE are obvious differences between the students in high schools or academies, studying elementary economics, and the older students engaged in collegiate or university work, in both maturity and ...

Across the country, teachers are navigating the impact of the “science of reading” laws, which mandate using curricula and methods deemed consistent with scientific findings about reading and ...

One of the things that’s amenable to scientific study is how we communicate information about science. Science education should, in theory at least, produce a scientifically literate public and ...

A dozen college students are saying the word "pat" and jotting down notes about the sounds being made. "Puh - AH - tt" Pay attention to the shapes your mouths make as you pronounce the word, instructs ...

AT the outset we must say that this is the most useful book on the practical problems of the teaching of science in grammar and ‘‘public schools which has yet appeared. It is the work of a committee ...

After attending Princeton as a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1969, Brian Kernighan returned to the University in 2000 as a professor in the computer science ...

Outside, it was summer, but inside John Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Quantesha Pittman was teaching third graders to build words. "What's that first sound again?" she asked the room of about ...

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