A by-the-numbers look at our education system shows that the traditional school calendar is failing to meet many students’ needs and more time better spend can help. Expanding learning time, or ELT, ...

Two months ago, I wrote an article about the the declining numbers of students identified as having “specific learning disabilities,” the largest of the 13 categories that are included in Individuals ...

Most people know how to count, but the way we master this ability remains something of a puzzle. Now a formal model of the cognitive basis of counting has been developed. Most people know how to count ...

Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of work and the demand for lifelong learning. As a society, we spend hundreds of billions of dollars ...