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 ...

Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the annual conference of the Association for Continuing Higher Education. This organization is dedicated to the success of students who don’t follow the ...

Colleges will ask what about your experiences mattered to you and why. Write down the details now while they're fresh in your ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Creating clear pathways from higher education to careers is a focus for policymakers, university ...

Teacher educator, independent researcher, and author Zaretta Hammond has a new book out, Rebuilding Students′ Learning Power: Teaching for Instructional Equity and Cognitive Justice, which builds on ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

It’s time to re-read James Simon Kunen’s The Strawberry Statement, a 19-year-old Columbia undergraduate’s “wry and clever” firsthand account of his fellow Ivy League revolutionaries and the 1968 ...

Earlier this month at Truesdell Elementary, in the last five minutes of one of my classes, I called for my students' attention. “Class, class!” I called. “Yes, yes,” they responded in unison. “I have ...

It’s parent-teacher conference season. For everyone involved—teachers, students, and parents—these events frequently conjure up ambiguity, even dread. Students may sit at home wondering and worrying ...