Mara Mitchell long suspected her oldest son C.J. just skimmed over books without really comprehending what he was reading. But she didn’t grasp how poor his skills were until he sat down a couple ...

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...

A new study reveals that students learn best through prediction activities, even though they don't realize it. This idea is at the center of new research published in CBE—Life Sciences Education from ...

Helping children learn effectively requires more than effort and intelligence. How students allocate their time, whether they are consistently getting enough sleep, and how they approach learning ...