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 ...

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 ...

Post-pandemic schools are still feeling the aftershocks — socially, emotionally, and politically — say educators Mathew Portell and Tyisha Noise, co-authors of Harvard Education Press title, Reducing ...

Powerful generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools that can rapidly generate human-like responses to prompts and questions have created a challenge for some educators. Concerns abound about how ...

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 ...

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 ...

Half of teens surveyed have used generative AI, but few (4%) use it frequently Most common uses are for getting information (53%) and brainstorming (51%) AI can help with homework and creative ...

Over roughly the past decade, 38 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws or introduced policies that aim to bring literacy instruction in line with decades of interdisciplinary research ...

Higher education is one of the few industries that has changed little in the past few decades. Visiting Professor Brian Rosenberg believes there is an urgent need to transform higher education but too ...

Young adults in the U.S. report twice the rates of anxiety and depression as teens, according to a new report from Making Caring Common (MCC), a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Although there is a huge amount of interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the consumer world, particularly since the release of OpenAI’s free ChatGPT program last November, in the ...

Competition among colleges is certainly not new. From as early as the 19th century, colleges and their students and alums have engaged in some form of “institutional boosterism,” Reuben says. The ...