University faculty are expected to have confidence in the classroom. However, the pressures of life in academia can often ...

A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

In their efforts to regulate how teachers can discuss issues of politics and identity in the classroom, Republican state legislators have so far focused mainly on social studies and history ...

There’s an old Roman insult that goes like this: “He can’t read or swim.” The presumption is that just about anyone who applied himself (or herself) could learn these skills. Indeed, many countries ...

In science, a variable is something that can be changed, measured or controlled in an experiment. Scientists look at variables to understand how they affect things. A variable is any one of the things ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show how latent variable growth modeling can be utilized to examine change in students' attitudes toward ...

Re: “Children can’t stride into the future in a 19th-century education system” [March 5, Opinion]: I have been a high school teacher for more than 50 years, the last eight as a volunteer teaching ...

Ofsted inspectors have given a secondary mixed reviews with improvements needed in the quality of education. A report from the watchdogs into High Tunstall College of Science in Hartlepool's Elwick ...