Psychological research on learning is sometimes overemphasized in the classroom, but that doesn’t mean some concepts shouldn’t play an important role in teachers’ approaches. A report released last ...

Maryanne Parker, etiquette expert and founder of Manor of Manners, agrees, and she even recommends enforcing these etiquette principles at a young age. "We cannot assume children will just pick up ...

The Rev. Mark Tyler shared this hope with me during a PhillyVoice interview on the interfaith movement in Philadelphia. "[Our children are] inheriting a world that is closer by social media than it ...

It’s no secret that computer science (CS) courses are not a priority in many high schools. Across the nation, many schools get away with packaging courses that teach kids to make Powerpoints, ...

Teaching and preaching weren't at the top of Bishop Dorothy Daniel's list of career choices. "I wasn't even a good student in school," said Daniel, the senior pastor of Kingdom Life Family Center and ...

A public elementary school in the Denver, Colorado area is planning to subject kindergartners and first-graders to gender and race sensitivity teaching as part of a push to teach the "guiding ...

Athletes jumping off a diving board. A duck circling a pond. Planets rotating in space. What do all these things have in common? They—or at least, their robotic representations—are products of a ...

Laura Peter is a former deputy undersecretary of commerce for intellectual property and deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Nineteenth-century American writer and philosopher ...

Professors know all the excuses for late homework. But my daughter had a legitimate one when her beloved grandmother died in Mumbai. My daughter needed to be at the funeral to mourn with relatives and ...