Motivation is connected to concepts dear to higher education – intellectual curiosity, grit, resilience, persistence, achievement, ambition. Whether the aim is to motivate first-year undergraduates to ...

“Everyone is interested in something, it just may not be the thing we want them to be interested in,” said Larry Ferlazzo, an English and Social Studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in ...

As a child, we are fascinated with the world. As a child, we are naturally curious about our environment. We want to touch, push, pull and poke things that are within our reach. All of our senses are ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. An unmotivated ...

Supporting student engagement and creating the conditions in which student intrinsic motivation can flourish continues to be a challenge facing teachers in the classroom. Today’s post is the latest in ...

How can we “motivate” the unmotivated to learn something new? It’s a great question, and is surely one often on the minds of educators everywhere. I especially liked how Cyndy put the word “motivate” ...

How to motivate, engage and retain students is a commonly discussed topic in higher education. From one perspective, we seem to be further from finding the magic ingredient than ever before, ...

Over the past five years, more than $200 million has gone toward launching the new Common Core standards, with the goal of closing achievement gaps in public schools. But for all their meticulous ...