Thirty years ago this month, Benjamin Bloom posed a challenge to the learning sciences community: How could we replicate the effectiveness of one-to-one or small-group tutoring in a more ...

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

Oh, The Places You’ll Go is all about the joy of possibility. In many ways, that’s what education is about too: equipping students with the skills and sense of adventure to explore new ideas ...

In 1984, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published research on a new method of teaching, commonly called Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem. Wikipedia summarizes it: “The average student tutored ...

The research supporting the current trend towards “personalized learning” is limited, as Education Week detailed earlier this month in a special report on growing efforts to design teaching and ...

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 ...

In traditional schooling, time is a constant and understanding is a variable, The New York Times reports. A fifth-grade class will spend a set number of days on prime factorization and then move on to ...

FALL RIVER — You can trace the history of Mastery learning to Maria Montessori, said Armand Desmarais, executive director and co-founder of the Mastery School of Independent Learning in Fall River.