Less recognized has been the impact of the air we breathe indoors, even though we spend about 90% of our time inside, says Lindsey Burghardt, one of the authors of Air Quality Affects Early Childhood ...

YING XU: It is actually very important to first think about what drives children's development. It is obviously a very complicated process. But one key factor is children's social interactions with ...

My son’s binder was a mess. Loose papers were falling out, others looked like they had been balled up or stepped on, some more than once. The binder itself was bent in one corner. But he was a seventh ...

Simply handing a child a book is only a small piece of the summer reading challenge. “It’s not just one book and done, it’s a partnership across the community to help students avoid learning loss and ...

The notion of multiple intelligences — and Gardner’s follow-up ideas about teaching individual students in the ways they can best learn, and teaching important concepts in multiple ways, for many ...

During his early years in Texas, Fryer would call his grandmother when he got home, and talk with her for hours until his father walked in the door. "I was telephone-parented by my grandmother," he ...

For decades, affirmative action has been a deeply integral — and deeply debated — aspect of college admissions in the United States. The idea that colleges can (and in some cases, should) consider ...

Today, The Education Recovery Scorecard, a collaboration with researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and Stanford University’s Educational Opportunity ...

U.S. surgeon general Vivek Murthy placed a spotlight on America’s problem with loneliness when he declared the issue an epidemic in the spring of 2023. Murthy explained, in a letter that introduced an ...

In her 25 years as a teacher and school librarian in Santa Clara public schools in California, Megan Birdsong, Ed.M.'94, never had a parent lodge a formal complaint about a book their child was ...

Whether you seek to manage a complex organization or team, launch an entrepreneurial venture, or drive an initiative that sparks new possibilities within an existing school, district, or network, the ...

Many educators struggle with unconscious bias in their roles at school, and often in ways that can unknowingly perpetuate racism and negatively affect students. In this episode of the Harvard EdCast, ...