Hotter temperatures affect students' ability to learn, according to an analysis by R. Jisung Park, an environmental and labor economist at UCLA's department of Public Policy and the Luskin Center for Innovation. Data shows, however, that snow days did not affect learning.

Students who engage in active learning learn more -- but feel like they learn less -- than peers in more lecture-oriented classrooms. That's in part because active learning is harder than more passive learning, according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  

Female students appear to be better at sustaining accuracy over time during tests, according to a study that looks at data from the Program for International Student Assessment and compares student performance at different stages of tests.

There are five keys to effective school leadership, writes Matthew Joseph of Milford Public Schools in Massachusetts. In this commentary, he shares a blueprint, which includes a focus on vision, goals, action plan, action and reflection.

Cash-strapped universities might be tempted by AI tutors, but they cannot reproduce human creativity or insight, writes Mark Haw, senior lecturer in chemical and process engineering at the University of Strathclyde.

Students aren't always aware of the progress they are making or how their emotions affect their learning throughout the year. These strategies can help make those things visible to them.

This PhD dissertation is an inquiry into the darkness of being a university student. Through a series of evocative vignettes, aesthetic expressions and philosophical speculations, Janus Aaen explore the murky nooks and corners of students’ lives based on an ethnographic fieldwork at Aarhus University. (pdf)

Does your teaching feel trapped in the amber of how it's always been done? One teacher uses action research to try something new and tracks the results.

Researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia are using technology to measure students' engagement in class in an effort to improve performance in science. Under the study, about 500 students wear watches and headsets that measure their brain activity, heart rates and skin temperature during science lessons.

Along with their French lessons, Johanne Boursier’s Grade 10 students will also be learning about sleep this school year.

A teacher at Regina's O'Neill High School has come up with a clever way to get students engaged in learning math.

A school district in Massachusetts is using virtual reality to better support students with disabilities. In one example, video-production students at a middle school are using VR to create a virtual tour of the campus that can give new students an early, safe view of their school.