Colleges and universities can be important institutions for mastery learning, but it requires that the attitude to how students learn changes. At the start of the new semester just a few weeks ago, a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Griffin covers postsecondary education and the future of work. In recent days, I’ve been reflecting on my time as a policy ...

Editor’s intro: This spring, Robert J. Fitzgerald, Social Science Department Chair at University High School in Normal, Illinois, is serving as a Fulbright Distinguished Teacher at University College ...

Students at Belmont-Cragin often lead morning assemblies, part of an effort by the school to give young people more control over their own learning. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report The ...

UC Santa Cruz’s Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas recently partnered with the Dolores Huerta Foundation and UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center to release instructor’s guides and ...

Even in schools offering face-to-face instruction this fall, one “class” of students likely won’t be the coherent unit that it was in past years. Within one 5th grade class, for example, students may ...

The pandemic relief package that just cleared Congress includes no less than $126 billion for schools, and there’s talk in education circles of using a portion of the money to reduce class sizes by ...