By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark To perhaps risk the ire of educators across the nation, we should ask, ‘Is academic performance really important? And […]

By Dr. Ana Gabriela Bell Jimenez I’m a native Costa Rican who moved to the United States as a foreign exchange student when I was […]

By Dr. Lynn Kepp To offset lost educational opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic, schools and educators are seeking new ways to expand access to learning […]

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark There continues to be controversy regarding cognitive training (sometimes called brain training) programs, and there continue to be many skeptics. Skepticism […]

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A lot is being written about our youngsters not getting enough sleep, particularly our high school students. In fact, […]

By Kathleen McClaskey Editor’s Note: This is part one of a three-part series “How do we create an inclusive learning culture with equity at the […]

By Tamara Fyke For some of us, school is just beginning. For others, we have been back at school for over a month. For all, […]

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark With all the attention being paid to the differences between learners and the need for differentiation, it is also […]

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark A recently published research study on teachers’ understanding of the brain and neuroscience research has been getting a lot of attention. […]

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark We’ve been encountering the term “cognitive capacity” more and more often since we started to make the distinction between […]

By LeiLani Cauthen Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series. Part one can be found here. The crux of the issue is […]

By Betsy Hill and Roger Stark In Part One of this series, we envisioned a world where vastly greater numbers of students could improve their […]