The first time I noticed it, I was confused. I was sitting across from someone who had just described a mistake they’d made at work. They didn’t spiral. They didn’t launch into a ten-minute defense.

That’s when we learn to associate one thing with another thing, like the ringing of a bell with food, in the famous example of Pavlov’s dog. The more times we experience the stimulus and the reward, ...

In addition, the Olympic Games are also an opportunity to learn about history, geography, and math. For example, students can ...

To prepare students for a lifetime of learning, empower them with choice in how they consume and learn content. Imagine all that a child learns from birth to age 18. Do you think that knowledge will ...

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Sooner or later, everyone fails at something. But does everyone learn from their failures? In fact, the evidence suggests that most people struggle to grow from mistakes and defeats. When researchers ...

Growing up a latchkey kid meant learning to handle quite a lot of things on your own. Gen X was born between 1965 and 1980, which means this year they'll be turning 45 to 60 years old. As a smaller ...

This article was written for our sponsor, Participate Learning. For many students, summer is much-anticipated respite from the classroom. But oftentimes, the lapse in regular academic instruction can ...

What actually happens inside the brain when learning works? Drawing on neuroscience, this breakdown of Stanislas Dehaene’s 'How We Learn' explains attention, error, practice, sleep, and motivation, ...

I have had the worst year ever in 2017. I got fired from my job (not laid off — fired!) in January 2017. There were creative differences between me and the Art Director in the company, who wasn't even ...