At first glance, John Hagen seems precisely the calm, collected steward one would expect from a nurturing physician. Spend a few minutes with him, and it quickly becomes clear that the 67-year-old now ...

More than 20 years ago, I was able to give my sister, Kathy, a life-saving kidney. It almost didn’t happen: Initial tests indicated that I was not a good enough genetic match to make the operation ...

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And perform worse on tests. The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade ...

Flush with COVID-19 relief aid and scrambling to meet students’ soaring emotional needs at the height of the pandemic, many school districts invested heavily in social-emotional learning. And that ...

The Great Resignation. Quiet quitting. Quiet firing. No matter which terms are thrown around, the workforce has undergone multiple transformations since most companies adopted a remote or hybrid model ...

Storytelling -- the oldest form of teaching -- is the most effective way of teaching primary school children about evolution, say researchers. Storytelling -- the oldest form of teaching -- is the ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

For decades, California, like much of the United States, has struggled with gaps in its health care workforce. Today, seven million Californians live in Health Professional Shortage Areas—a federal ...

While the Shared Services model has produced several examples of success at delivering higher quality, lower cost, and improved control, many implementations still don’t perform at the expected levels ...

Pope Francis is everywhere, it seems. Now Minda Zetlin over at business magazine Inc. imparts eight leadership lessons that make Pope Francis so effective and why all leaders should adopt these ...

The Takeaway: Everyone needs to be persuasive. Parents need to persuade their toddlers to eat veggies, managers need to persuade clients to buy and team members to up their productivity, and hotels ...