College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

This free, bilingual app helps kids think like scientists with 10+ games. This free, bilingual Play & Learn Science! app helps kids “think like scientists,” with 10+ games that spark real-world ...

One classroom with a focus on story time and another on computer learning. Two classrooms intended for students Kindergarten through second grade - one with a focus on "storytime" and the other ...

A teacher's capability to improve students' scientific understanding is influenced by the school and district in which they work, the community in which the school is located, and the larger ...

The latest release of 8th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress scores last month revealed a troubling reality: Coupled with steady drops in students’ math and literacy skills, students’ ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...