The term “student agency” continues to be at the forefront of the educational discourse around the world. By encouraging children to have more control over their learning, educators hope students will ...

Agency is the capacity and propensity to take purposeful initiative--the opposite of helplessness. Young people with high levels of agency do not respond passively to their circumstances; they tend to ...

It’s only recently that I’ve become much more disciplined in my use of the term “student agency” and how I apply it. Thanks to a research assignment on behalf of the Center for Innovation in Education ...

Dr. Rebecca Alber teaches in the Graduate School of Education at UCLA. She is a blogger and consulting editor at Edutopia, a literacy specialist, and a compulsive reader. She dips into the Pacific ...

GIVEN that most schools strive to grow by establishing a reputation of academic achievement, there are obvious gains from teaching students to crack exams and chase results. However, we have a dearth ...