Each day, as students enter my biology classroom, someone will inevitably ask the question, “What are we doing today?” My response always attempts to shift their frame of thought from the ...

As adoption of education technology accelerates, a fundamental question remains: Are we measuring the right things?

How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning ...

In his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, the grandson of the sixth president delivered the American school system one of its most memorable intellectual smackdowns. His treatise on the ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify that the International Big Picture Learning Credential was developed by Big Picture Learning Australia with the help of researchers from the ...

Suppose that you’ve served on a faculty committee that has devised a list of collegewide learning objectives for your undergraduates. You don’t want that list to just sit there on a Web site as a ...

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform has developed a set of indicators to measure the success of expanded learning efforts that aim to improve the academic achievement of low-income students. The ...

Graduate-level programs were once relatively immune from pressure to define and measure “learning outcomes” for their students. But for good or ill, the student-learning-assessment movement has begun ...

The coronavirus pandemic supercharged efforts to create new schools and school models. Learning pods, microschools, homeschool co-ops, hybrid homeschools, forest schools, and other efforts that defy ...

In the introductory overview, we highlighted the significant problems and false positives that accompany current Large Language Model (LLM) detection tools. The inability to identify LLM output, plus ...

Recent discussions on pre-K quality center around questions of what we should prioritize in early childhood classrooms — and how we should measure success. A new guide provides a chance “to explore ...

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