There’s a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become fluent. Many people also assume that it will become much harder to learn a ...

More than a century ago, Pavlov trained his dog to associate the sound of a bell with food. Ever since, scientists assumed the dog learned this through repetition: The more times the dog heard the ...

The Learning Center is LFJ’s online popular education space for everyone — community members, parents, educators and youth — offering learning for civic and political action to build an inclusive, ...

If you’ve ever finished an online lecture and realized you barely remember what was covered, you’ve experienced the difference between active vs. passive learning. In virtual classrooms, it’s easy to ...

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Here’s an example. Compared with my wife, to whom any computation seems to come intuitively, I have zero talent for math. One day I was struggling to determine the correct angle to set a miter saw for ...

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Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

Inquiry-based learning has been gaining more attention in classrooms across the world. Teachers often ask, What does it look like in practice? How does it differ from more traditional approaches? At ...

During my years teaching science in middle school, high school and college, some of my students have resisted teaching that educators call higher-order thinking. This includes analysis, creative and ...

And that’s why most successful people take a research-based approach to learning faster and retaining more. Like: According to a study published in Applied Cognitive Psychology, students who watched ...

I have to admit it: I’ve always been a nerd. I loved school. I loved university. And yes, I’m seriously contemplating a PhD, not for career advancement, but simply for the joy of diving deep into ...