This week’s new question-of-the-week is: What are effective assessment strategies for multilingual learners? Assessment is a key element of teaching—we need to know where our students are in the ...

Once considered a supplement to traditional classrooms, online learning now sits at the center of higher education’s innovation agenda. Institutions have made significant progress in expanding access ...

When discussing learning transfer—the ability to apply previous knowledge, skills, and strategies to new contexts or situations—we should also be mindful of our learners’ cognitive load. Cognitive ...

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As summer transitions to fall, millions of students began the new school year the same way they ended the last: physically separated from the teachers and staff who are crucial to their academic ...

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In recent years, there have been calls across the country to focus more on phonics — learning how to sound out syllables in words — during reading instruction. Many researchers and advocates for ...

As districts across the country search for ways to support early childhood learning, designers, architects and planners can play an important role in creating developmentally-appropriate facilities ...

When new lawyers head into the courthouse, the longest-working judge, Dan Marshall, sometimes likes to pepper them with ...

Aida Vega’s 13-year-old daughter, who has attended Los Angeles schools since kindergarten and is in eighth grade, still struggles to read and write English. Vega has long pushed for extra help so her ...