A fall 2023 Student Voice survey from Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse found the top reasons students participate in extracurriculars is to meet new people or make new friends (70 percent) or to ...

In 2009, the Gallup Student Poll of young people in grades five through 12 began documenting what it called the student engagement cliff. This cliff describes how student engagement drops dramatically ...

When campuses reduce barriers, provide clear information, and create welcoming opportunities for engagement, they help ensure ...

Does the thought of student-led inquiry make you nervous? For some teachers, handing over control of the classroom to their students sounds like an invitation for disaster. What’s to stop things from ...

In collecting data for a new study on kindness in high school, this quotation from a student emerged as especially insightful. It illustrates the link between a student's perception of the classroom ...

There is increasing concern children are less focused in school. This is often blamed on smartphones and social media. At the same time, there is significant pressure on schools to deliver academic ...

A positive relationship with a teacher at an early age may help children to feel more engaged with school, but not necessarily in the long term, new research shows. A new study of more than 3,600 ...

This session is a small-group workshop designed to help faculty develop questions and the skills to develop future questions that are helpful in creating student engagement in online discussion boards ...

Layla L. Hijjawi ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Quincy House. Given Harvard’s reputation for academic excellence, you might expect classroom engagement to be high ...