Several months ago a committee of the Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty recommended changes in the university’s core curriculum, the required courses outside the students’ specialization. Although the ...

Educators don’t need to choose between building students’ knowledge and teaching reading comprehension strategies. The question isn’t whether to teach strategies—it’s how to do it and when. “Are we ...

Threading prior knowledge into new material makes for more durable learning. Here are 12 research-backed, teacher-tested strategies to help kids unpack what they already know.

“Knowledge-building” has become a buzzword in reading instruction. It refers to English/language arts approaches that aim to systematically build students’ understanding of the world—rather than ...

Welcome to today’s online chat about using data to improve decisionmaking at all levels of education. This is the second of two chats accompanying the release of “Technology Counts 2006: The ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The American Association of University Professors on Thursday released a statement “In Defense of ...

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