To the editor: As an educator, I couldn’t agree more with Doug Lemov that learning and retaining basic facts, and creating a supportive, inclusive environment, are foundational to good pedagogy. What ...

A question confronts many professors at the start of each semester: Which of their students can grasp a subject’s underlying concepts, and which are simply adept at memorizing? Both kinds of students ...

In the evolving landscape of education, two prominent learning approaches stand out: Rote Learning and Competency-Based Learning (CBL). While both aim to impart knowledge and skills, their ...

Ground school is overwhelming, and rote memory puts off a lot of learners. Here's how to encourage students throughout the ...

Across education systems in the Asia-Pacific region, there is a growing emphasis on transversal competencies, better known in the U.S. as 21 st century skills, and a move away from “traditional ...

Mohammad Hanief m.hanief@gmail.com Education forms the bedrock of a society’s progress, shaping the minds that will lead its ...

Re “Real Test Is, Did the Kids Learn to Think?” Commentary, Nov. 5: Roger H. Weaver’s point that K-12 education is suffering from testing that does not test education other than rote learning is too ...

This is how a private pilot who had gone through an accelerated program to earn his certificate described his training. He had chosen the accelerated program because he was considering a career in ...

The son of my neighbours failed to crack the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), leaving his parents livid and shocked. “He scored almost 100% in science and maths in the ICSE exams a few years ago,” ...