A research review by the Education Commission of the States concludes that teachers’ expectations—often influenced by factors such as race, ethnicity, and family income levels—can significantly affect ...

Standing before columns of numbers on the blackboard, Jill Lyttle is teaching her 8th graders about prime factorization. She calls on a boy who often struggles in the class. After each not-yet-correct ...

The Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes study was carried out by the Institute of Education and is based on interviews with 62 parents of black Caribbean heritage. It found that many ...

As I’ve noted many times (see, for instance, here, here, and here), some corners in schooling today are marked by a bizarre enthusiasm for low expectations. This has fueled a push to eliminate ...

Education is shifting from rote learning to skill-based, student-centred teaching as technology, industry needs, and the ...

A few years ago, Wilson Elementary in the Forest Hills School District of Cincinnati, OH, had a problem. Its hallways were becoming increasingly disorganized, the kids a bit disorderly, and chaos ...

Students, teaching and learning practitioners and researchers across all disciplines will routinely need to use their university library and learning resources, spaces and services. This has led to ...