When you’ve been at something for 50 years, whether it’s operating a turret lathe or teaching political science, you probably think that you’ve mastered the trade. But like the lathe operator having ...

In 1840, Sir Issac Pitman, the English inventor of shorthand, came up with an ingenious idea for delivering instruction to a potentially limitless audience: correspondence courses by mail. Pitman's ...

In the age of COVID-19, we need to develop survival skills, both personally and professionally. Luckily, as teachers, we have honed flexibility and adaptability, and as artists, we create and innovate ...

Lecture theaters are emptying as universities switch to online learning to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus, but this option is not open to many schools. Universities are switching to online ...

There’s no doubt that COVID-19 distance learning makes this academic school year unlike any other. Teacher Appreciation Week begins on May 4th and it offers an opportunity to take a moment and express ...

Columbia, Cornell, and Yale universities have joined forces on an innovative education initiative to increase access to less-commonly taught languages. (Illustration by Michael Helfenbein) What ...

It is the modern techno-zombie idea, sometimes animated by misplaced enthusiasm and other times animated by cold hard necessity. Couldn’t we just use tech tools so that this teacher way over here ...

The ability of a Hebrew teacher, physically present in a classroom, to instruct simultaneously other classrooms anywhere in the nation, was demonstrated today by the B’nai B’rith Commission on Adult ...