Students beliefs and attitudes about learning can result in behaviors that affect their learning, writes educator and author Barbara Blackburn. In this article, Blackburn shares three beliefs of students and strategies to help counter the beliefs in a positive way, including the idea that they are a failure unless they get it right on the…

A fun multiweek project can support the development of the crucial skills that drive academic success for middle school students.

Ny forskning vid Åbo Akademi visar att det finns en skillnad mellan pojkar och flickor inte enbart i ordförrådets storlek utan också i ordförrådets tillväxt under de första åren.

Teachers in every content area can build partnerships with the school librarian to support students’ academic literacy across the curriculum.

Using tables can help bring challenging abstract algebraic concepts into better focus for high school students.

Equitable, evidence-based math lets students tackle each aspect of the subject in the way it makes the most sense to them rather than forcing one definitive method on an entire class, write Tori Trajanovski and Cristina De Simone, education doctoral candidates at York University in Canada. They explain why cultural, experiential and peer input can…

From spooky read-alouds for Halloween to a spring Battle of the Books, middle schools can use these strategies to get all students excited about literacy.

What leadership styles were important for principals as they navigated the challenges associated with COVID-19? How can school leaders partner with community to bring sustained change? In this edition of Researching education: 5 further readings, we share 5 readings on the topic of leadership, which address these questions.

School pupils who regard their teachers as discriminatory are likely to be behind in reading and maths, research has found. The conclusion comes after a study led by Dr Gulseli Baysu of Queen’s University Belfast which has been described as the first large-scale, multi-country research of its kind.

To improve literacy rates in the U.S., reading expert Timothy Shanahan says we need to stop looking for silver bullets and instead invest in teaching a much broader range of skills.

By centering student voice, grand conversations give teachers opportunities to deepen students’ content knowledge and collaboration skills.

To what extent has the learning progress of school-aged children slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic? A growing number of studies address this question, but findings vary depending on context. Here we conduct a pre-registered systematic review, quality appraisal and meta-analysis of 42 studies across 15 countries to assess the magnitude of learning deficits during…