This is Lauren Drazen's tenth year teaching Chinese at Hall High School, one of the two public high schools in West Hartford, Connecticut. Hall offers Chinese in grades 9–12, in levels I through AP.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taylor Swift is inspiring educators across the country to make learning fun — with singalongs, decor and much more. (Getty images; ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On a recent afternoon in June, a line of kids between the ages of 5 and ...

Interview: How to make learning fun for kids! Dr. Jody Sherman Levos is the Chief Learning Officer at "Begin." She talks about how you can make learning more fun for kids.

A lot of people talk about making learning fun. I think they have it basically wrong. When you’re having fun, you’re learning something. It could be learning something trivial – significant only in ...

Traditional training methods, such as long lectures, boring modules, and passive information delivery, often fail. Such approaches can quickly be overly dreary for the employees, leaving them mentally ...

Music is the universal language. It fills us with emotion and fosters imagination. What is the place of music in education, especially at a time when the arts are being severely cut from many ...

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For quite some time now, American educators have been pushing the idea that it is important to make learning "fun". This is a damaging concept. To understand why, just ask yourself a simple question: ...