The influential behaviorist shared his thoughts on 'failing.' ...

Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...

Behaviorism was born from research done by Ivan Pavlov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pavlov’s research into animal digestion led to the recognition that the animals that were being ...

Phil McCrae has written a fascinating history of “innovation” in education that should be required reading for everyone, most especially journalists attending this week’s Education Writers Association ...