By William Oehler, Director of Photography   The enduring sentiment of Gettysburg College’s education as “consequential” ...

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepares for its first post-pandemic school year, the results of a new Khan Academy survey of teachers offers hope for a brighter future and, at the ...

A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. The nonprofit’s latest push to make ...

One of the problems put forth by education researcher Benjamin S. Bloom was how to deal with the dramatically different student results produced by three different methods of training. Those methods ...

Apr. 7—Two assistant professors at Kentucky Wesleyan College have implemented "mastery learning" within their classrooms in the hope students truly know the material before moving on in their ...

EDUCATION WAS in crisis even before the pandemic. In 2018, data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) showed that 50% of students across 24 countries were not proficient in ...

Sarah never smiled in my classroom. At least not with her eyes. She spoke under her breath. Whispers of words I couldn’t usually hear. She is one of the many students who I remember because despite my ...

Every young learner in your schools deserves an equal opportunity to thrive. Personalized mastery learning in math and reading is a proven key to accelerating achievement for all students. Attendees ...

We often mistake the "aha!" moment of a clear explanation for actual mastery. The feeling of learning can be a psychological illusion, but we can spot the difference.

The learning institutions have changed their teaching methods and affected our cognitive abilities at the same time. I’m not sure if I have really learned [something] in the last 12 months. I wonder ...