One of the hardest things that students go through are periods where they just want to give up. Throw in the towel. Buy an essay. Cheat...

"What Did you put for number 9?" It is so easy to get overwhelmed with stress AFTER you take a test. After all, many students rush to...

Bottom-up learning is all about trial-and-error. What’s useful about that? Simple: feedback. Direct, meaningful, applicable feedback....

This is a continuation of the previous post. It should come as no surprise to scientists to find that many people, who have received poor...

Sometimes I feel there is nothing more misunderstood in education today than science. And I don’t mean that too few kids are learning...

We all know that we change as we get older. But often times, we are happy to be blissfully unaware of where we have changed, until...

When I work with students as a tutor, I see that one of the things that people struggle with the most is learning to trust themselves....

(Repost from conversationswithduckie October 23, 2012) “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” I stumbled upon this...