As someone who has spent almost her entire adult life in education-related jobs, it is easy for me to see teaching as a valuable skill. I began my career as a high school mathematics teacher. After ...

Given these findings about how students today define “research” and approach the research process, teachers are faced with identifying and teaching middle and high school students the skills they will ...

During a recent visit to a midwestern university, I found myself talking to a graduate student, a dean, and a visiting former foundation president. The conversation turned to the proper role of skills ...

The essence of a university education used to fit across a five-foot shelf. That was the space required for the 51 volumes of the Harvard Classics compiled by the university’s president, Charles ...

Rob Gee is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Maine and a permanent author at GradHacker. You can follow him on twitter at @robgee18. Rob Gee is a PhD candidate in the ...

Technology has transformed education but while students learn how to use it, they rarely learn how it works. Now a growing realisation among educators that this gap needs to be filled is prompting a ...

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Carol Parker is grateful that her school has supported her efforts to offer students keyboarding instruction. The assistant principal at Tennessee’s Rockvale Middle School has witnessed firsthand how ...

You can read this essay in a number of ways. You might skim it and forget it—the fate of most internet content. Or you might take it seriously, consider it against your own intuition and experience, ...

It’s back to school time which for most college students that means running up big debt without much hope of a real job at graduation. Ironically, college-even liberal arts schools-could offer their ...

As guests check out of El Capitan Hotel in downtown Merced, a group of students wearing Merced County Office of Education (MCOE) shirts or lanyards enter recently vacated rooms to strip the beds, ...