In the 1960s, the United States government wanted to find the best way to teach kids who were behind. A federal study called ...

An instructional program that originated in the 1960s has become one of the most effective and heavily researched in ...

Sold a Story is back with a new season that goes beyond reading. Emily Hanford explores an approach to teaching that's been largely rejected by the education system — despite decades of evidence that ...

In the 1960s, an education outsider named Zig Engelmann begins challenging conventional ideas about what young children can learn. He teaches his 4-year-old twins basic algebra. But he has a hard time ...

This is one of the reasons that teaching can be so difficult. You have to overcome what's known as the “curse of the expert.” Once you know something, it's hard to remember what it was like to not ...