“Looping”—the practice of matching students with the same teacher for two years (or more) in a row—has been around for decades. Could it be a solution for accelerating student learning and ...

When students have a teacher for more than one year, they benefit academically and behaviorally, a new working paper shows. The study, which was published this month by the Annenberg Institute at ...

A New Jersey water park that briefly opened the world’s first looping water slide in the 1980s plans to unveil a modern heir to the legendary ride long shrouded in myth and hyperbole.

In the 2011-12 school year, 19 percent of public and private schools in the United States did some form of looping. (This is the most recent year for which data on looping from the National Center for ...

Dr. Grant, a contributing Opinion writer, is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. This essay is adapted from his new book, “Hidden Potential.” ...