About teacher Gary McDonald telling some of his students he felt like lining them up against a wall and shooting them (Thursday article, “Student says teacher threatened shooting”): It’s a figure of ...

Research suggests that students are bored from a third to half the time they spend in school — significantly more than at home. And that can have serious consequences: One survey of high school ...

Teachers often wonder what happens to students who were bored by our classes. What are they doing? What sparked a passion in college? Former students who return to say hello are usually the ones who ...

Amid a numeracy crisis, students easily bored by math want less online lesson time, new research suggests. More than half of students who felt the most disengaged by mathematics, those who most often ...

Nowadays, when children are bored, they don't go outside and play with the other kids in their neighborhood, pick up a book, or even just sit and play with their toys. Instead, many children turn to ...

In the case of boredom, we think of many situations in life but intuitively not of exams. However, an international team of academics has now studied exactly this phenomenon of test boredom for the ...

Hear from one student about how physical activity in every classroom can help improve academic performance and mental health ...

More than half of California students can’t read at grade level, the latest set of scores from the state shows. It’s just the most recent sign in a too-long line of evidence that students aren’t ...

A student at Boone Middle School in Haines City, Florida, wrote a threatening message on a bathroom wall “because she was bored,” police said. Street View image ...