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About two out of seven children are likely bored in their classrooms, as they aren’t learning much that is new. Should these children skip grades? What’s the evidence on grade-skipping?
Two simple yet powerful things students can do to ensure that they have a transformative undergraduate experience, no matter where they go to college.
Many students are in the process of deciding whether to take a gap year – a year between high school and starting college. What does evidence tell us about taking a gap year?
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have called for making colleges and universities debt-free or tuition-free. Disadvantaged students need more than free college to achieve success.
Students from poorer backgrounds feel anxious, ashamed and stressed in the middle-class environment of a university.
A recent study on school vouchers shows that the program may be harming kids’ academic achievement, at least in math. What’s missing here? Are test scores the only way to judge a program?
Coming to understand students’ individual stories allows lecturers to guide, mentor and support them.
If we’re serious about closing the gap in Indigenous education, our new research shows the value of building better bridges into universities and vocational education.
Can the race of a teaching assistant have an impact on student grades?
Academics are using Twitter in classrooms and finding that it leads to some real results.
Children as young as six can show math anxiety. What’s the link between parents’ math anxiety and their children’s math anxiety?
Parent involvement with kids’ homework can have both positive and negative effects. So, what should parents and educators do?
One in 10 children report spending multiple hours on homework. There are no benefits of this additional work, but it could leave a negative impact on health.
What happens when a school doesn’t have many resources but teachers and the principal really listen to learners’ ideas and fears? The results, research finds, can be remarkable.
New research has found that results at high school aren’t good predictors of how students will perform at university.
The pathway to academic success is not always about the number of papers you’ve published. Some have found that a sense of humour can be just as useful.
The new school year has just begun. Parents may be feeling nervous about sending their children off to school. What if they don’t like school? What if school doesn’t like them? What if they don’t do well…
Students who go to bed late during the school year have poorer academic results than those with a healthy sleep cycle. Researchers…
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President Emeritus and Professor of Education, Elon University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and Psychology and 21st Century Chair, University of Arkansas
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland
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Director of Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement, Florida State University
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Professor of Psychology and Education, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences