As the fall term winds down, many of us are thinking ahead to the winter and spring, planning courses and refreshing syllabi in anticipation of the coming year. One part of the syllabus design that ...

L ectures are boring. Assignments are busy work. And all of that tuition is for this? When Justin Shaffer hears these kinds of complaints from students, he thinks they have a point. He also thinks ...

Asking students to dissect the motivations of a character in a book is doing more than teaching them about plot and characterization. This exercise also helps students learn to see different ...

For teachers, every empty desk is a drain: on class time, energy, and ultimately their enjoyment of the job. More than 1 in 4 students nationwide chronically misses school. Now, new research links ...

Amelia F. Barnum ’28, an Associate Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Everyone knows that feeling: you look around the table in a meeting or class and realize nobody ...

First-day-of-class 2025-26 Senior Sunrise event at Washington-Liberty High School (via APS) A local advocacy group is pressing Arlington Public Schools’ leaders to have students in class five days per ...

Lynch School researchers are investigating this question with the help of electroencephalography (EEG), a neuroimaging tool that measures electrical activity in the brain. Bers’ lab is planning a ...