Each year, America spends roughly $2 billion on standardized achievement tests at the national and state levels. Credit: John Locher/Associated Press The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.

How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning ...

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.

The AI adoption gap in L&D is not because of scepticism, but due to knowledge gaps, perceived talent shortages and outdated KPIs, new Rise Up research finds ...

Despite increased investments in talent and learning development (L&D), most organizations struggle to provide the metrics that CEOs and business leaders care about most: impact and return on ...

Educators spend countless hours thinking about grades, talking about them, and doing the work involved in giving them. Many posts on this topic have appeared here over the years, and I’m sure more ...

Without mechanisms in place that help hold clients accountable for making progress toward their goals, coaching sessions can end up frustrating both clients and coaches. A lack of clear milestones and ...

This is a scenario I have repeatedly participated in or heard described in funder circles: A discussion about the importance of narrative change, often including examples of innovative work, generates ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...