Children learn more through ‘guided play’ than from teacher-led instruction, according to a new study by experts at Cambridge University. A play-focused approach to learning, where children are ...

If you've ever had the feeling that your elementary school kids were 'smarter' than you -- or at least capable of picking up new information and skills faster -- a new study suggests you're absolutely ...

Corrected: This story has been updated to more accurately describe how Mansfield Elementary’s test scores compare to those of other schools in Connecticut. When the doors to Mansfield Elementary ...

What you do? It starts with what you know. Here are seven ways to learn faster and retain more. 1. Test yourself. A classic study published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest shows ...

In the past two decades, impact evaluation has become an unavoidable topic in the social sector. Yet beyond the discourse on how to measure social impact lies a structural problem: We are not ...

Often, instructors want students to do more than know content that is increasingly complex. Other goals may refer to students’ interaction within the larger program or within the world. Fink (2013) ...

These three simple strategies can allow you to train your brain to learn new skills—both inside and outside the classroom. Unfortunately, we tend to think about learning primarily as something done in ...