“HomeWork: Lessons Learned in the Home for Success in School and Life,” released in May 2023, marked the publication of the second edition of a book fifteen years in the making. Maxine J. Wood, Ed.D., ...

Building exercise into lessons might help kids get better grades, especially when the task at hand requires memorization, a small Dutch study suggests. Researchers worked with 500 children in second ...

For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel it instead with the kinds of inquiry that drive historians themselves. Now, the ...

How can you combine a student’s love for baking with key lessons in math and science? Just by following the steps of a recipe, children can make important connections to lessons in the STEM field. t ...

Reading, writing, and arithmetic are considered the important academic building blocks in one’s formative years. Swimming lessons are not essential – at least not in most schools. They should be.