I sat across the table from Dawn, a wide-eyed eight-year-old girl in pigtails, bracing myself to tell her the news. I have told students they have a learning disability hundreds of times over my 20 ...

This is a wonderful question because technology works best when it is used as a tool to help solve problems. For example, in-person immersion is a highly desirable way to accelerate language learning, ...

Generative AI tools can mimic real-life, foreign-language conversations at any time, which might be the key to language learning Corin Cesaric-Epple is an Editor at CNET covering home and kitchen tech ...

On a recent morning, I had the chance to read poems my ninth-grade English students had written about encounters with racism. I was struck by the beauty and poignance of many of their lines. Yet I ...

Albert Bandura, a Canadian-American psychologist, discovered that a patient’s observation of former patients in handling snakes was an effective therapy while working with patients on snake phobia.

The average U.S. high school class has 30 students, according to research from the National Council on Teacher Quality, and while each student learns in their own way, practice and specific feedback ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

If teaching were like following a recipe, it would be a much easier job. Unlike the reliable and straightforward process of baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies, practices that work in a morning ...

Millions of students nationwide use text-supplemented audiobooks, learning tools that are thought to help those who struggle with reading keep up in the classroom. A new study by scientists at MIT's ...

In the animated film Up, the character Dug is a talking dog with an interesting mannerism. Each time he sees a movement off to the side, he stops whatever he is doing, stares off in that direction and ...