Around 40% of incoming college students are taking what University of Nevada, Las Vegas, assistant professor Federick Ngo calls "redundant" math classes, covering material they already learned in high school. Ngo's research also shows that female students and those from low-income households were more likely to take such classes, which Ngo says raises questions about…

Researchers asked adults to reflect back on their happy childhood memories. They found those who recalled more were less likely to have depression in adulthood and had more supportive relationships.

Educators should consider ways to help students recognize and curb implicit bias, writes Jacquelyn Whiting, a high-school library media specialist in Connecticut. In this commentary, she shares a lesson that helps students to recognize their own bias by focusing on language.

After struggling to accept her own name in school, educator Huda Essa sees students' names as both an important part of their identity and gateways to foster respect for cultural diversity in the classroom.

Research supports the benefits of learning to be bored versus spending time looking at a screen, according to this blog post.

The global wealthy will soon be able to send their children to a top English private school without having to leave home. Harrow is setting up a virtual sixth form which will teach A-levels online to pupils anywhere in the world.

Bullying behaviour often emerges in childhood, and the consequences for victims can last a lifetime. But what makes a child become a bully?

When teachers give students the space to pursue inquiry, kids can take more ownership of their own learning and generate authentic questions.

A Kentucky school district held a "pop-up school" this summer aimed at supporting struggling students through deeper learning, writes teacher Donna Neary. In this commentary, she describes the "adventures" students went on as part of the program, dubbed the Backpack League.

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.