Before Benjamin Bloom came along, the conventional wisdom in the education field was that educators could only do so much to help underachieving students succeed. If the students lived in poverty with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ve all been told that learning works like climbing a ladder. You start on the bottom rung with “basic” skills, climb upward through progressively “advanced” ones, and eventually reach the top. But ...

Research in Higher Education, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1979), pp. 263-274 (12 pages) The Mastery Learning Program was initiated in the City Colleges of Chicago to improve student achievement levels and reduce ...

(TNS) — Most of us have vivid (and sometimes painful) memories of struggling to learn something new at some point in our lives. Maybe it was fourth grade math homework at your kitchen table, or a new ...

Today’s guest blog is written by Thomas R. Guskey, author and Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Kentucky. Rubrics help educators describe student performance at all levels of ...

Writing a negative blog post about “competency-based learning” is dangerous! After all, how can any sane educator be against children developing competencies? So, we need to be very clear: We are not ...