The Bakersfield Parent Teacher Association council was facing a dilemma in March 1929. It needed to raise $500 for its milk fund to serve the children who attended Bakersfield’s schools. The PTA ...

Students are used to watching videos by themselves. When they watch videos as a class, many struggle to follow them and maintain focus. However, videos can still be a highly effective and ...

"We're excited to stand on the right side of history here," Learning Resources CEO Rick Woldenberg said after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of his educational toy company's challenge to President ...

A group of students from West Philadelphia is embarking on a trip they'll never forget — a 10-day learning excursion to Ghana, designed to connect classroom lessons to real-world history. Twenty ...

Like many university instructors, Steven Jackson knows his way around a lecture hall. The rows of seating, the balcony above, the lectern centered carefully at the front — all part of the traditional ...

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” —Maya Angelou If you are finding it hard to watch or read news reports about immigration ...

As an educator in Simsbury, I see every day how meaningful, well-resourced learning experiences can shape students’ understanding of the world around them. That is why I am grateful that the Mohegan ...

Stephanie Jenkins does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

If you’ve ever finished an online lecture and realized you barely remember what was covered, you’ve experienced the difference between active vs. passive learning. In virtual classrooms, it’s easy to ...

Most teachers (myself included) don’t want to rely on lectures and worksheets to do our jobs. The problem is that it’s time-intensive and difficult to plan for lots and lots of active learning, which ...

Associate Teaching Professor Cecil Joseph remembers the first time he taught physics in one of UMass Lowell’s Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms. Instead of facing rows of students ...