Over the past two decades educators and psychologists have extolled the application of brain-based learning programs. Buzzwords such as neuroplasticity and prefrontal cortex are commonplace to the ...

The actual power of brain-based learning programs is that they focus our attention to learning strategies that will engage a multitude of memory-related brain regions. Identifying specific brain ...

Teachers’ beliefs matter for student learning—but myths about the brain can be easily spread and hard to dislodge. The vast majority of active and future teachers—and even more of the general public ...