A study reveals that emotional engagement significantly enhances students' math performance, highlighting the importance of managing feelings in learning.

Chad Aldeman’s March 16 op-ed, “When high school grads can’t do math,” focuses on outputs, such as MCAS and the proposed MassCore. There is no discussion of inputs, namely the resources needed to ...

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, ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

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 ...

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

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 ...

While most states have graduation rates between 80-95%, math proficiency is most often below 50%. (There’s a wide range in ...

PBS KIDS movies offer fun & engaging educational experiences with various interests. Here's what's available and the life lessons they teach.

While the biggest slice of the country’s annual budget continues to be allocated to education, as mandated in the ...