Education news and policy, translated for the kitchen table.
A struggling learner’s brain reorganizes with the right multi-system support, but only when cognitive abilities, emotional well-being, and environment work together. Acting early on all three…
Electronic games get children to focus, problem-solve, and collaborate for hours. Research explains why: games create the conditions for learning that classrooms struggle to replicate. Here…
Distance learning has worked for almost three centuries, from mailed lessons in 1728 to today's online platforms. So why does it sometimes feel second best? Often…
Tablets are in your child's classroom. Whether they help or hurt depends on two factors the research names consistently: teacher training and strategic planning. Here is…
Smartphones don't help kids learn because they match a learning style; that theory failed testing in 2008. They work because they reach cognitive, auditory, visual, and…
The brain science that demolishes two myths parents absorb about struggling learners, and what 1,011 brain scans revealed about the hemisphere-dominance theory those myths borrowed from.
The world's child survival research identifies parental education as one of the strongest predictors of whether children make it through their earliest years healthy. Here are…
Someone official told you what your child struggles with, and it started to sound like a prediction. Here is what the brain research says a learning…
The day a learning disability label arrives, many parents quietly step back and let the specialists lead. The brain science says the most powerful lever was…
Traditional education built a fixed-trait model of intelligence before brain science existed. Neuroplasticity research has since confirmed the brain reorganizes itself through experience, making your child's…
