One of the first things I learned this year as a newcomer to the tenure track is that most students do not take advantage of my office hours during the semester. A few drop by on a regular basis to ...

Many of us have had the experience of coming to enjoy an activity as adults. For example, we weren't tennis players, bird lovers, plant parents, or photographers early in life, but came to enjoy one ...

It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school. A seventh grader at a charter school in St. Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes ...

As the previous chapters show, discipline-based education research (DBER) is a relatively new area of research composed of a set of loosely affiliated fields with common goals and methods. The fields ...

Mandatory attendance, usually fixed between 70 and 75 per cent as a condition for appearing in examinations, remains one of the principal instruments for enforcing these standards.

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...