One of our favorite books is How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose and others. The chapter we turn to again and again is “What Factors Motivate ...

The Student Engagement Peer Mentors are a select group of undergraduate students dedicated to fostering a culture of involvement and growth at UBuffalo. As a team, they connect students with ...

Assigning students to represent class conversations visually—with words, drawings, and symbols—boosts engagement and agency.

Chronic absenteeism remains stubbornly high and getting students back in class has become a major conundrum for many schools. The problem is undermining educators’ efforts to catch students up ...

Columbia Votes student “voter registration genius” Haley Patton (center) moderates a panel as part of “Meeting the Moment” in March 2025. When I started Columbia Votes in 2018, the name accurately ...

In 2009, the Gallup Student Poll of young people in grades five through 12 began documenting what it called the student engagement cliff. This cliff describes how student engagement drops dramatically ...

In 2020, the World Economic Forum released a list of the most sought-after skills for the jobs of tomorrow. Among them were a number of surprising entries such as creativity, coordinating with others, ...

What does it take to truly engage students in the classroom and their studies? As instructors report a growing disengagement in their curricula, many are beginning to rethink their teaching practices ...

College student engagement is a critical part of success not just for students, but for the institutions where they learn. When students are engaged in their academics and their campus lives, they are ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. SEATTLE—Social media remains a popular engagement tool for college students to interact with one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States has an education problem—low and declining test scores, disengaged students, and growing teacher shortages, ...

At Washington Academic Middle School in the Sanger Unified School District, students in Samantha Nixon’s eighth grade math class recently tackled how to organize and tabulate a large fast-food order. ...