Parents shouldn’t be concerned if their bilingual child is slower to develop their vocabularly, because in most cases this is just a temporary lag.
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Children who fail to read regularly during long breaks from school will often see their reading ability drop. Here’s how to keep kids engaged in reading.
Students reach the middle years of high school with poor vocabularies and unable to work with language in sophisticated ways.
Under new legislation, children from low-income families will receive just 12 hours of early learning support a week, adding to the risk of these children falling behind their peers at school.
Teaching often comes second to research in universities. A group of award winning lecturers explains why teaching is the best part of their work.
Research shows that reading stories with a maths focus can boost grades and also help parents become less anxious about discussing maths.
President Obama’s message has put issues around standardized testing back in the news. Here’s what scholars have been saying.
Technology is critical for innovation, yet schools struggle to get students interested in this area. Could teaching robotics change this?
Dyslexia is often poorly understood by the public, leading people to attribute a problem they have, like bad spelling, to dyslexia. Here are the most common misconceptions explained.
Problem solving requires so much brain power that there can be no room left for remembering simple rules.
Teachers often view vocabulary building as the most important aspect of education. In reality, there are lots of other early learning experiences that children need to develop.
Parent involvement with kids’ homework can have both positive and negative effects. So, what should parents and educators do?
The time of transitioning back to school is crucial for both parents and children. Here’s what you can do.
Keeping a printed book in a campus library comes with steep costs. How are campus libraries evolving?
High temperatures have been found to have a negative effect on learning, so how are schools in northern Australia coping?
A university building and a school are two of the six buildings shortlisted for the Stirling Prize.
Minecraft is not just the world’s most successful PC game – teachers are now using it in the classroom to get kids excited about learning.
There may be a chemical secret to getting kids interested in learning – and it’s one that’s created and produced by our own bodies rather than in a lab.
Mathematics and cooking can both be about problem solving, excitement, aesthetics. And it’s for you to decide for yourself what you like and don’t like in both realms.
In our study, it was the comparison groups of children who showed a visual learning style, not the children with autism.
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Professor of Reading and Children’s Development, The Open University
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Professor of Higher Education, Rhodes University, South Africa, Rhodes University
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Director of the Learning, Instruction & Technology Lab and Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, The University of Queensland
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Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Early Childhood Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus, Swinburne University of Technology
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Campus and Secondary Principal at the International School of Geneva's La Grande Boissière, Research Associate at the University of Geneva's department of Education and Psychology, Université de Genève, Université de Genève
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