Stories from JSTOR Daily about education, libraries, learning, and student life.

We will probably remember 2020 as the time when distance education exploded. But the infrastructure that enabled this expansion was years in the making.

In the 1960s, one scholar writes, there was no grand vision behind the idea of a middle school. The problem that the model sought to solve was segregation.

Chatauquas changed the lives of Midwestern women between 1878 and 1900, setting the stage for new gender roles in the twentieth century.

Some studies have found that simply getting kids to pick up a book during the summer may not actually help that much. What actually works?

Kids develop images of themselves as "smart" or "not smart" at very young ages.