A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot’s title character speaks anxiously about preparing “a face to meet the faces that you meet.” That line, like the poem as a whole, describes a ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are specific ways educators can make teaching science more culturally responsive? When we talk about making school culturally responsive, science is not usually ...

Editor’s Note: In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 years of experience. In recent years, that number is closer to just three years leading a classroom. The “On Teaching” series focuses on the ...

Sally Patfield currently receives funding from the NSW Department of Education and the Paul Ramsay Foundation. The study on which this piece is partially based was funded through the Vice-Chancellor's ...