Maximizing the amount of time students spend in class and focused on learning can have long-term benefits. But that’s a tall order for teachers for reasons largely outside of their control. During a ...

While moderate use of computer devices can have academic benefits, especially when they are used at home, intensive use is often correlated with diminishing performance, writes Michael R. Bloomberg.

Many college students are unable to graduate on time because required courses are not offered when they need them. Mounting budget cuts and campus layoffs could make the problem worse. As colleges ...

As the fall term winds down, many of us are thinking ahead to the winter and spring, planning courses and refreshing syllabi in anticipation of the coming year. One part of the syllabus design that ...

For teachers, every empty desk is a drain: on class time, energy, and ultimately their enjoyment of the job. More than 1 in 4 students nationwide chronically misses school. Now, new research links ...

Tuesday’s first day of class brought new passing times: Students had 15 or 20 minutes to travel between classes, instead of last year’s 10 minutes. Here, our Opinion writers comment on the new class ...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Parents in Clarksville are concerned about their kids getting to school so late, oftentimes missing full class periods. The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System ...

L ectures are boring. Assignments are busy work. And all of that tuition is for this? When Justin Shaffer hears these kinds of complaints from students, he thinks they have a point. He also thinks ...

T wo books about pedagogy gave Nicholas Kapoor an idea. Kapoor is an instructor of the practice in mathematics at Fairfield University, in Connecticut, where he is also associate director of its ...

Students prepare for a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin. More than half of students nationwide can’t get into required courses they need, prolonging the time and cost of college — and the ...