Singapore hopes to build a “skills-first” economy by championing “skills-first” learning,  but what exactly does it mean? ...

Teaching younger children through 'guided' play supports key aspects of their learning and development at least as well - and sometimes better - than the traditional direct instruction they usually ...

Singapore ranks 12th in a global skills index and is ramping up efforts to adopt a skills-first approach in hiring, training, ...

This week I’m taking an exam to get officially certified as a functionally fluent Greek speaker. I’m nervous I’m not going to pass even though I’ve been living in a Greek-speaking country for nearly a ...

British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 61, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: LEARNING AND LIFE CHANCES IN KNOWLEDGE ECONOMICS AND SOCIETIES (March 2013), pp. 7-24 (18 pages) In this article we argue that ...

On Oct. 16, Ottawa Area Intermediate School District (OAISD) hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the relocation of ...

While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...

Take it from a former Stanford dean who’s dealt with more than her fair share of bright-but-bumbling 20-somethings: Just reaching a particular birthday does not make you an adult. “I was seeing more ...

Wood County Adult Learning Center instructors Tanner Hunter, from left, Melissa Everly and Deanna Addis stand in front of the center’s new location in St. Joseph Landing on Friday afternoon. (Photo by ...

The adult day program at Nashoba Learning Group helps individuals 22 and older with autism gain life skills, employment ...

One in four young adults across the U.S. is functionally illiterate – yet more than half earned high school diplomas, ...