For as long as I can remember, I’ve been the type of learner who needs to see information laid out visually to understand how it fits together. It’s how I best retain information. I guess I’m just one ...

“I once had a student who hated math, but he loved football, so we did daily problems around Auburn University football,” says Suzanne H. Collins, who teaches second grade at Rocky Ridge Elementary, a ...

HAMBURG — Some people say they retain things best when they hear them. Others swear by reading, while some believe they only really grasp something if they can see it, or even touch it. And what about ...

Not all children learn in the same manner. A single classroom contains children with broadly differing learning styles, yet are taught in the same way. And even within the same family, siblings often ...

In the same household, parents can and often do have one child who can’t stop building with Legos, another who dances through homework, and yet another whose face is always in a book. How we learn is ...

The idea that teachers should present material to children in modes that best fit their “learning styles” is being disputed. As Yogi Berra famously said: It’s déjà vu all over again. The debunking is ...

Do you believe in "learning styles"? Despite a body of research that doesn’t support learning styles theory, a recent survey revealed that most educators believe students are “auditory,” others are ...

A new study is among the first to investigate how babies can learn a second language outside of the home. The researchers sought to answer a fundamental question: Can babies be taught a second ...