Teachers know that expectations matter. They know that having high expectations in a classroom can both support (“I know you can do this”) and spur (“I’m not going to accept your bare minimum effort”) ...

There are countless distractions while learning at home: a cat walking across the keyboard, a sibling goofing off in the background, a comfy bed to lounge on, a pantry full of tempting snacks. As ...

Teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach. The first psychologist to systematically study this was a Harvard professor named Robert Rosenthal, who in 1964 did a ...

Back-to-school season brings a new wave of students to college campuses each fall, many of them unaware of higher education’s hidden curriculum. Inside Higher Ed compiled some considerations for ...

On the first day of classes I, like most teachers, introduce my students to the syllabus and class expectations. I have draconian-seeming rules that students often don’t believe and even many ...

How many times have you heard that schools need to create “a culture of high expectations” for all students? What exactly is that? Esther Quintero, senior fellow at the nonprofit Albert Shanker ...

Debate, disagreement, and discomfort have a productive role to play in the process of learning, and our students generally share our faculty’s sense that classrooms should be a site of vigorous and ...