For more than 90 years, the Core curriculum at the University of Chicago has formed the basis for undergraduate students’ academic journey through the College. Yet the Core’s transformative impact ...

TUPELO — Young children who adopt healthy habits early in life will benefit in multiple ways, not least of which is a healthy heart. But children — especially the youngest — can’t do it alone. They ...

There are no silver bullets in education but if there ever was a secret weapon educators can deploy to improve student learning, it’s metacognition. Metacognition is a meta-level awareness of ...

I’m Scott Carlson, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering higher ed and where it’s going. This week, I tell you about a conversation I had with the authors of a recent book on the study and ...

At the end of each semester, students are left with a single grade to let them know how well they did in a course. They are not, however, often given strategies on how to improve those grades in the ...

Humans and most other animals are known to be strongly driven by expected rewards or adverse consequences. The process of acquiring new skills or adjusting behaviors in response to positive outcomes ...

You know that guilty feeling when you unlock your phone just to “check something,” and suddenly—bam!—45 minutes vanish into the vortex of TikTok dances, Instagram reels, or endless Reddit threads?

With effort, practice, and effective study skills, anyone can learn mathematics. Mistakes are opportunities to grow. Questions are opportunities to learn. Problems are challenges to be solved.

Struggling with math class? If so, here are five habits you can adopt to ace the subject: 1. Meet with your teacher: If you’re feeling a bit lost during a lesson or you receive a grade on a test that ...