Education reform should start in the classroom, with the relationship between teacher and pupil. In this vein, high school math teacher Ben Orlin’s recent Atlantic piece “When Memorization Gets in the ...

Elementary math isn't taught the same way it was when we were kids. Here's how to help your child succeed with their math ...

The idea of rote memorization is bound to tick some people off, which makes for nice discussion and debate. In all the very legitimate conversation about critical thinking, problem-solving, analysis, ...

I’ve always been good at memorizing. In high school, I learned countless vocab words and their meanings in both English and Latin, the names of bones in anatomy, states and their capitals in geography ...

A few years ago, I was directing someone who was completely new to acting. This man, we’ll call him Al, was having a terrible time memorizing his lines. There were times during the first performances ...