As the fall term winds down, many of us are thinking ahead to the winter and spring, planning courses and refreshing syllabi in anticipation of the coming year. One part of the syllabus design that ...

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, “because that is what they will remember.” It’s a sentence that has made me ...

For many young people, your first job is a rite of passage. It might be babysitting, or working at a fast food restaurant. National statistics show the number of working teens is higher than it’s been ...

Restricting student cellphone use during school hours doesn’t appear to lift academic achievement, improve student attention, ...

L ectures are boring. Assignments are busy work. And all of that tuition is for this? When Justin Shaffer hears these kinds of complaints from students, he thinks they have a point. He also thinks ...

Amelia F. Barnum ’28, an Associate Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Everyone knows that feeling: you look around the table in a meeting or class and realize nobody ...

Lynch School researchers are investigating this question with the help of electroencephalography (EEG), a neuroimaging tool that measures electrical activity in the brain. Bers’ lab is planning a ...

Mukta R. Dharmapurikar ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a double concentrator in Environmental Science and Engineering and Economics in Lowell House. In business, they say the customer is always ...

[Maximilian Milovidov is a freshman at Columbia University and a member of TikTok's Youth Council. He used a large language model to edit this essay for length and a human to edit for content. This ...