The beauty of knowledge and science is its evolution. The more scientific work progresses, the more refined our knowledge becomes. Our understanding of astrophysics, chemistry or geology is constantly ...

Hereabouts, we call it “weather-weather.” Elsewhere, it is called the inevitable pendulum swing or regression towards the mean. That worldwide and eternal phenomenon now applies to textbooks. Before ...

As a recent college graduate in the early 1990s, with fewer books under my belt than many of my students and almost no developed competencies in teaching, I landed one of the most coveted teaching ...

The Santa Barbara-based nonprofit organization Teaching Beyond Textbooks is hosting its inaugural Summer Institute with education leader Ron Ritchhart on Aug. 9 at Montecito Union School. Ritchhart, ...

When attempting to help students in math, don’t forget the human factor. That appears to be the central conclusion of an article I came across recently, which came out this fall in the Review of ...

Technology plays a minor role in transforming teachers and our educators need support In recent years innovation in technology has compressed the world into a pocket-sized edition with everything at ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely ...