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I’m Scott Carlson, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering higher ed and where it’s going. This week, I tell you about a conversation I had with the authors of a recent book on the study and ...

From active recall to spaced repetition, research-backed study habits can transform how you learn and retain information. Pairing these techniques with campus resources like tutoring and supplemental ...

At the end of each semester, students are left with a single grade to let them know how well they did in a course. They are not, however, often given strategies on how to improve those grades in the ...

For more than 90 years, the Core curriculum at the University of Chicago has formed the basis for undergraduate students’ academic journey through the College. Yet the Core’s transformative impact ...

There are no silver bullets in education but if there ever was a secret weapon educators can deploy to improve student learning, it’s metacognition. Metacognition is a meta-level awareness of ...

Do you see a pattern here? Learning! David Novak addresses that challenge in his book How Leaders Learn: Master the Habits of the World’s Most Successful People. He started life as a trailer park kid, ...

For many parents, homeschooling is not only about where a child learns. It is also about how that child builds curiosity, keeps going when work feels difficult, and stays interested in learning. These ...