Our students have a great deal of background knowledge that teachers need to activate so that they can learn new content. And students need to be provided with additional background knowledge so that ...

Fire Ants. What do you know about them? Turn and talk to the person sitting next to you." My face flushed as I turned to the middle-aged stranger sitting beside me in the workshop. “Um..they sting? Or ...

Building knowledge beginning in kindergarten can eliminate test-score gaps between lower- and higher-income students, according to a new study. Building students’ general knowledge can lead to ...