Nearly a century ago, psychologist B.F. Skinner pioneered a controversial school of thought, behaviorism, to explain human and animal behavior. Behaviorism directly inspired modern reinforcement ...

Jerrid Kruse receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium, and the William G. Stowe Foundation. During my years teaching science in middle school, high ...

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but you can teach yourself about new topics with Google Learn About, the experimental new tool from Google that takes a more educational approach to ...

School districts in every state now have the green light to establish competency-based education programs and models in their classrooms—but they have a lot of work to do on the operational side to ...

A growing proportion of high school students think they need to continue their education after they earn their diploma, and the jobs that offer them the best chance at living a comfortable life ...

What if learning English wasn’t just about memorizing rules or slogging through endless grammar exercises? Imagine a platform that transforms your study sessions into an interactive, personalized ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...