Sure, students in the classroom have to remember facts, but they also have to apply them. Some research efforts to enhance learning zero in on methods to strengthen memory and recall, while others ...

As a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Carl Wieman could probably get away with being a mediocre teacher. Yet he’s devoted much of his career to improving the ways colleges and universities teach science ...

“Feminist methodologies, as I teach them, have three main components. They start by making the everyday world problematic, and they do so in order to demystify structures of domination.” ( start 9:16 ...

Eight graduate students from the Republic of Latvia were among the many students at the University at Buffalo this spring to experience the transition to online learning in response to the global ...

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 ...

Science Communication is an umbrella term for anything related to sharing science with others. The traditional methods for communicating science have included the classic PowerPoint lectures or ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. In September 2019 ...

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 ...

An ongoing effort in New York state to encourage schools to adopt the “science of reading” is seeing some early success, according to a new survey, with the majority of educators reporting that their ...

One of the most fundamental skills students learn in school is still at the forefront of the national education conversation—how kids learn to read. The “science of reading” movement pushed forward in ...

She asks her students if they can feel the way the words sound as they speak. "Say it again and see if you feel it in your vocal cords," Fuxa prompts her reading instruction class, held last October.