Teaching reading has always been a subject of debate, a debate that involves a balancing act of multiple factors. Currently, the “reading wars” are best embodied by debates that are centered on the ...

The typical college general education curriculum, fractured into discipline-based silos, often fails to engage students with the profound questions and pressing controversies that shape human life and ...

Building knowledge beginning in kindergarten can eliminate test-score gaps between lower- and higher-income students, according to a new study. Building students’ general knowledge can lead to ...

The Unified General Education Requirements (UGER) are designed to help students develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary to understand and address the world’s challenges with ...

The more children know about a subject, the easier they’ll find it to read and understand a passage about that topic. It’s a simple idea that’s backed up by research: Studies have shown that students ...

This is the second of two essays exploring key theories – cognitive load theory and constructivism – underlying teaching methods used today. Constructivism is an educational philosophy that deems ...