Daniel Willingham’s new book, Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy, provides a handy guide for students and the people who work with them. Willingham has a PhD from ...

Daniel Willingham is a cognitive scientist, by which I mean, he is an academic researcher who extracts information from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and ...

What does science say about the complex processes happening as a person reads? And how can K-12 educators use this to improve reading instruction? In this video, originally streamed on Facebook Live, ...

"Why don't students like school?" Many students ask that question, too, as they struggle to stay attentive in class, while waiting for the bell to ring so they can pay attention to the things that ...

Willingham (Why Don’t Students Like School?), a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, delivers a straightforward manual on how college students can learn more effectively. The author ...

Washington Post education columnist Valerie Strauss hosts a column by University of Virginia professor Daniel Willingham, someone I always go out of my way to read. Something isn’t working in the way ...