In this blog, organized by Harvard education professor Jal Mehta and Washington-based education writer Robert Rothman, students, teachers, administrators, researchers, and policymakers explored the ...

When my daughter was born, I realized I had to change jobs. I was a “BigLaw” mergers and acquisitions lawyer, the kind of role that hijacks your life and devours all your time – every hour of every ...

Never before, in the history of higher education, have so many people, in so many different roles, worked so hard to reach a single objective. That objective is the rapid transition from face-to-face ...

“I have learned much from my teachers and even more from my friends, but from my students I have learned more than from all of them.” — Rabbi Ḥanina (Ta’anit 7a) It has taken me years to understand ...

How will the COVID-19 pandemic alter the future of teaching and learning? Answering that question requires that we first acknowledge some difficult truths. At this point, we don't know the extent to ...

Why do we learn? This is the provocative question that Stanislas Dehaene asks in his book How We Learn. 1 But you’ve probably never asked yourself: “Why do we learn in the first place?” As Dehaene ...

Choosing a school can be a difficult decision for all families. Factors to consider include public or private, convenience, location, finances, and the theory or pedagogy of the school. It’s even more ...