"Sending our teens to school is like sending them to a buffet where they are required to try everything being served." ...

If motivation is a person’s willingness to do something or behave in a specific way, improving student motivation is key to improving achievement: students who are motivated to learn are more likely ...

A lack of academic motivation is impacting high school students in a big way. To find out why, I asked my own students what drives them.

Motivation High School is a college-preparatory school at 5900 Baltimore Ave. that provides its nearly 392 students with the educational skills and tools to help them reach their highest potential.

As 56 million children return to the nation's 133,000 elementary and secondary schools, the promise of "reform" is again in the air. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has announced $4 billion in Race to ...

Adolescent athletes with high motivation for school also have high motivation for sports. Male students tend to be less interested in school than their female peers, a new study shows. Adolescent ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph. D. Fall semester is a good time to revisit a common question that can trouble many parents of children in 6th or 7th grade: “Why has our young adolescent, who worked hard ...

Amid the dizzying crush of school improvement efforts -- federal incentive grants, new regulations for teacher evaluations, proposals to raise state curriculum standards -- how often do you hear ...