It’s easy to understand why learning may suffer when the teacher’s voice has to compete with a passing 747, but emerging research suggests that quieter noises can have varied effects on student ...

Educational researcher C. Aiden Downey is a Decatur parent and an associated faculty at Emory University. (We are not related). Dr. Downey writes today about noise levels in schools, something few of ...

The ability to hear properly is one of the most important factors in a child’s ability to process and learn new information. According to the Institute for Enhanced Classroom Learning, children in ...

Do you experience noise interfering with your teaching? Education Week is asking educators to submit audio recordings of the noise that makes their school day difficult. Education Week is currently ...

The construction crew outside the Lab School in June. NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies, a high school in Chelsea, serves 1,056 students. The box-like building is four stories high and the ...

All of us come across different sounds in our life—sounds from television, radio, household appliances, traffic, children’s’ laughter, rain, calls of animals/birds and many more. Sounds that are too ...