Thomas D. Cook, a professor of sociology, psychology, education, and social policy at Northwestern University, criticizes education researchers’ reluctance to perform randomized experiments. He points ...

Discovery Lab at the Gathering Place is all about learning through play and making it fun. At the Science Lab, kids get educational experiences through experiments. “One of the things that we love to ...

Benjamin Herold, an Education Week reporter, recently published a story about an experiment conducted by Pearson to determine whether growth mindset interventions improve learning in a software ...

Two courses, eight weeks...three educational iPad apps. This is the mission that students in an experimental cross-disciplinary collaboration that I was part of this summer accepted as they took on ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will develop experiments for a NASA-funded education program designed to inspire high school and middle school students to develop solutions for commercial ...

No modern Athens is Madison, Wis.; nor is the University of Wisconsin’s Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn a Socratic humbler for whom the hemlock cup awaits. But Wisconsin may look at Greece. To do so it ...

To help teach hearing impaired students the physics of sound, the crew aboard the International Space Station conducted an educational experiment, demonstrating a musical instrument called a chicken ...

We modeled the capacity of water to hold heat more easily than air. With the first balloon, the flame was applied to the rubber skin separating air outside the balloon from air inside the balloon. The ...

During the past generation many a “progressive” secondary school has mushroomed forth in the U. S. educational field. Dedicated to the proposition that the school child should be made happy and useful ...