I'm fascinated by the way that ideas take hold and spread, and the huge power of herd thinking. The acceptance of the standard paradigm, in any field, can make it very difficult to move on. This is ...

Does your child love to read but hates math? Or is your child great with numbers but can't be bothered with books? Project Education: Edutopia, a partnership between WRAL-TV and the George Lucas ...

The theory of multiple intelligences, which turns 20 this year, remains popular even as skeptics question author Howard Gardner's claims. In 1983, when Howard Gardner published Frames of Mind, the ...

Educational technology is seldom used to facilitate more active student learning in the classroom. Instructors who have mastered PowerPoint, however, could just as easily learn to create simple pieces ...

The education world gets obsessed sometimes with trying to come up with ways to measure smarts. But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to ...

It’s always reassuring when what we thought we knew through simple observation is corroborated. Case in point: I always figured that the kids I taught learned in different ways from each other. I ...

Have you ever attended a class where you thought to yourself how much more you could have gotten out of it if the teacher incorporated some visuals into the lecture? It certainly helps if you could ...

T echnology does not necessarily improve education. Take a simple innovation like the pencil: One can use it to write a superlative essay, to drum away the time, or to poke out someone’s eye. The best ...