There is a persistent and damaging myth in education: that some students are naturally good at studying and others simply are not. In reality, effective study is a skill — a learnable, teachable, improvable set of habits and strategies that any student can develop with the right guidance and sufficient…

The lecture as the dominant mode of classroom instruction is in well-deserved decline. Decades of educational research have established what skilled teachers have always known intuitively: students learn more, remember more, and engage more deeply when they are active participants in the learning process rather than passive recipients of information.…

Manners are among the most practical gifts we can give a child. Long after a school year’s worth of facts and formulae have faded, the habits of courtesy, attentiveness, and respect that children develop in their early years remain with them — shaping how they are perceived in classrooms, friendships,…