Metacognition—thinking about your thinking—improves learning by sharpening how you interpret experiences rather than merely accumulating them. Monitoring the goals, assumptions, and confidence behind ...

In Christina Gomez’s kindergarten classroom at Mt. View Elementary, in a neighborhood of Nashville, Tenn., students took turns summarizing what they’d just read about the four seasons and farm animals ...

Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate ...