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 ...

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 ...

As millions of students prepare for summer vacation, many parents may worry about endless time spent on the screen. According to Michael Rich, pediatrician and director of the Digital Wellness Lab at ...

Janet Patti, professor emerita at Hunter College, and Robin Stern, psychologist, joined forces decades ago when they recognized the crucial role of emotional intelligence for school leaders. How ...

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.

Play has always been a bit of a mystery. It serves no obvious practical purpose, but it has long been recognized as an important part of how children discover and learn about the world around them. A ...