Science outreach efforts can encourage trust and interest in science, benefiting everyone involved. A guide produced by plant biologists from several institutions aims to make science outreach better and more effective.
Research led by Stanford education professor Jelena Obradović finds that too much parental involvement when children are focused on an activity can undermine behavioral development.
Stanford’s Ben Domingue and research colleagues find that reading fluency among second- and third-graders in the U.S. is roughly 30 percent behind what would be expected in a typical year.
Heather Hough, executive director of Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), talks about a closely watched measure to increase school funding.
Research from the Stanford History Education Group shows how easily young people are deceived by information on the internet – and what schools can do about it.
With schools across the country closing temporarily to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Stanford education scholar Denise Pope suggests ways to get K-12 students excited about learning at home.
When a group from the Electrical Engineering Department agreed to mentor high school interns, they didn’t anticipate it would stimulate entirely new research. That experience led the group to establish an internship focused on humanities in STEM.
With new results from two major exams revealing that U.S. students fall far short of expected literacy skills, Stanford education researcher Rebecca Silverman weighs in on the debate about how to teach kids to read.
With the 2020 presidential election approaching, new research by Stanford education scholars finds that prospective young voters are poorly equipped to evaluate the sources of online content.
New research led by Stanford education professor Thomas S. Dee provides the first evidence of effectiveness for a district-wide initiative targeted at black male high school students.
A new study led by Francis Pearman of Stanford Graduate School of Education suggests that efforts to address the racial discipline gap could help narrow the black-white achievement gap.
In his new book, Science in the City, Stanford education professor Bryan A. Brown helps bridge the gap between students’ culture and the science classroom.
In a new book, Jo Boaler talks about the importance of struggles and mistakes in the learning process and suggests how parents and teachers can help children become more receptive to learning.
Racial segregation leads to growing achievement gaps – but it does so entirely through differences in school poverty, according to new research from education Professor Sean Reardon, who is launching a new tool to help educators, parents and policymakers examine education trends by race and poverty level nationwide.
With a new school year ahead, Stanford research shows how students, teachers and parents can better understand what leads to – or in some instances, undermines – a student's success.
Under the Horizon Scholars program, Stanford provides scholarships to high-achieving students from low-income families to attend Stanford High School Summer College.
A new national study, co-authored by Stanford scholars, shows that high school students who took a course to cultivate positive beliefs about learning earned higher grades.
Three Stanford schools have opened the doors of their laboratories to teachers under a Stanford summer research program for middle school, high school and community college teachers.
Stanford researchers have applied chatbot technology to self-paced learning and significantly improved student recall and retention over flashcard-based learning.
Rooftop solar projects at schools could reduce harmful air pollution, help the environment and enhance student learning while cutting electricity costs, a new study finds.
The author and journalist will share his personal experience of raising a child with autism and lead a conversation about how to support children with learning differences. The March 6 event kicks off a research symposium on the future of special education.
