In many schools, it’s not unheard of for principals and teachers to offer small prizes or pizza parties as an incentive to convince more students to aim for perfect attendance. State officials in ...

Highly effective education interventions don’t have to cost a lot, in time or money—and researchers should focus more attention on finding small-scale programs that can “nudge” students in the right ...

The U.S. Department of Education has endorsed competency-based education with the release today of a letter that encourages interested colleges to seek federal approval for degree programs that do not ...

Last week, Education Lab reporter Neal Morton wrote about how Tacoma School District is using behavioral science to send a wake-up call about attendance. In December 2016, the district delivered 5,000 ...

Blue Nudge, the education-to-action platform that instils in schoolchildren values of sustainability and cleanliness, is targeting to extend its reach to over 5,000 schools in five years. Currently, ...

The number of students dropping out of further education has been reduced following the introduction of a text alert system on Sunday evenings and at the end of half term holidays, reminding ...

Butterfield Bank has partnered with nudge, the financial wellbeing company, to launch an online education platform for the benefit of clients and the wider communities in Bermuda and the Cayman ...