As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepares for its first post-pandemic school year, the results of a new Khan Academy survey of teachers offers hope for a brighter future and, at the ...

One of the problems put forth by education researcher Benjamin S. Bloom was how to deal with the dramatically different student results produced by three different methods of training. Those methods ...

Writing a negative blog post about “competency-based learning” is dangerous! After all, how can any sane educator be against children developing competencies? So, we need to be very clear: We are not ...

A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. The nonprofit’s latest push to make ...

A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 5. Please scroll down to view. On March 5, AEI’s John Bailey and Michael B. Horn of the Clayton Christensen ...

The research supporting the current trend towards “personalized learning” is limited, as Education Week detailed earlier this month in a special report on growing efforts to design teaching and ...

The COVID pandemic created a huge amount of tragedy and chaos for us. Some chaos transformed into social and behavioral changes that will remain after people have been vaccinated and resume their more ...

The learning institutions have changed their teaching methods and affected our cognitive abilities at the same time. I’m not sure if I have really learned [something] in the last 12 months. I wonder ...

Sherria Hoskins has received funding from the Education Edowment Foundation (two grants) to carry out Randomised Controlled Trials into Mindset. Alexei Vernitski does not work for, consult, own shares ...

School is a game in many ways and so the rules create winners and losers. Points are earned by those who know how to play the game well and those who refuse to play it often find themselves not ...