Students learn academic content because they need it to solve the problem in front of them. Math becomes a language for ...

Digital technologies bring the science of learning to a critical crossroad. With a lack of high-quality, evidence-based data ...

A major recent study showed that informal science learning can play an important role in improving student learning in that subject. Such out-of-class learning can include trips to zoos or museums and ...

On a bright, sunny day, a group of first-graders eagerly begins a science investigation called “Shadow Town.” The teacher gathers them in a circle and asks, “What causes shadows?” It’s a good question ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a continuing series on the practical takeaways from research. Over the past year, students have had to learn a lot about a phenomenon that has dominated their lives: the ...

How would you dance the ocean tides? That’s a question that several ten-year-old pupils at Portuguese schools have had to think about, as they took part in a pilot project that uses dance in geology ...

This study will examine how citizen science projects can be designed to better support science learning. It will explore the potential of citizen science to support science learning, attempt to ...

Learning and knowledge are key drivers of human progress. We face renewed urgency for effective education and lifelong learning to meet the demands of knowledge-based, technology-driven economies and ...

This study will update and extend How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (2000) by examining the research that has emerged across various disciplines that focus on the study of learning ...

“We personalize learning all the time, we just don’t call it that,” says special education teacher Gina Tesoriero who has been teaching middle schoolers for over a decade. “When you give students open ...

Policymakers must reimagine instruction and school structures to reflect the latest science of learning. Policymakers and educators need to reimagine the American school experience in order to better ...