Featured Articles
What Do You Mean by “Cognitive Capacity?”
We’ve been encountering the term “cognitive capacity” more and more often since we started to make the distinction between “cognitive ability” and “cognitive capacity” a few years ago. The reaso...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Solving the Teacher Shortage Can’t (by Itself) Solve the Learning Shortage
President Biden recently announced plans to fund efforts to address the shortage of teachers, a situation that has been building for many years and accelerated because of the pandemic. There is ...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
The New 70/30 Rule: 70% Will Get Us $72 Trillion
In Part One of this series , we envisioned a world where vastly greater numbers of students could improve their cognitive skills so that they score at the 70 th percentile or higher. Why th...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Building the 21st Century Worker: Are We Workforce-Ready?
In part one of this article, we took a look at the cognitive capacity and cognitive skills needed to build a workforce-ready employee. As we approach the mid-21st century, the need for prepari...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Building the 21st Century Worker: a Blueprint for Success
Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part article. It is becoming increasingly clear from neuroscience research that intelligence is not fixed and that the ability to learn, ...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
3 Keys to Building Individual Learning Capacity
Doesn’t everyone have the ability to learn? Of course. Learning is what our brains do. As we interact with the environment, the neurons in our brains make connections. Those connections are stre...
Betsy Hill and Roger Stark
Cognitive Skills and Wellbeing: The Relationship
Editor’s Note: This is part one in a three-part series Wellbeing is the word that is on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. And for good reason. It is that single, intangible state th...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Cognitive Approach to Addressing the Impact of Covid-19 on Students
Schools are exploring new ways to address the impact that Covid-19 has had and continues to have on students. As leadership teams around the country consider the most effective options to help c...
Betsy Hill & Roger Stark
Featured Papers
The Learning Counsel presents journals, papers and briefs on critical topics in Digital Education.
Most will require registration in order to access them, but they are all free.
Three Near-Term Innovation Areas for K12
An Essential Audio Ingredient in Today’s Accessible Learning Environments
The Gaps Remaining for District Digital Transition
5 Steps to Fixing the Hidden Traffic of Records Management Overwhelming Schools
From Chaos to Learning Recovery: Going from Manual-Digital All the Way to Efficiency
Hybrid Logistics Security
