This fragmentation does not stop when the workday officially ends. In a survey of 2,000 professionals created by the ...

For more than 90 years, the Core curriculum at the University of Chicago has formed the basis for undergraduate students’ academic journey through the College. Yet the Core’s transformative impact ...

We don’t have to look very far—especially in this bombastic political season—for evidence that many people seem more inclined to lob rhetorical grenades than seek understanding or civility. And the ...

There are no silver bullets in education but if there ever was a secret weapon educators can deploy to improve student learning, it’s metacognition. Metacognition is a meta-level awareness of ...

You know that guilty feeling when you unlock your phone just to “check something,” and suddenly—bam!—45 minutes vanish into the vortex of TikTok dances, Instagram reels, or endless Reddit threads?

I’m Scott Carlson, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering higher ed and where it’s going. This week, I tell you about a conversation I had with the authors of a recent book on the study and ...

At the end of each semester, students are left with a single grade to let them know how well they did in a course. They are not, however, often given strategies on how to improve those grades in the ...

In a world full of information, the ability to navigate it effectively is a form of intelligence all its own. While we often think of "smart" and "clueless" as fixed traits, the reality is that the ...

Do you see a pattern here? Learning! David Novak addresses that challenge in his book How Leaders Learn: Master the Habits of the World’s Most Successful People. He started life as a trailer park kid, ...