Sid Davis, an educational filmmaker in the 1950s and '60s who specialized in dark cautionary tales crafted to frighten captive classroom audiences away from even thinking about misbehaving, has died.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Karen Rader provided an overview of the purpose of science education. This lesson plan about Cold War-era science education films opens ...

Southern Methodist University in Dallas reported that 13 undergraduates were enrolled in its new one-credit course: bait-casting. One of 16 alternative sections in Physical Education 12A, a required ...

Though the decade of the 1950s evokes memories of happy homemakers and beautiful lawns, women were going through changes in education, world politics and their own status. The Rockford Branch of the ...

Travel back to the 1950s with this nostalgic educational film designed to teach housewives how to shop smartly and stretch every dollar. Packed with tips on budgeting, comparing prices, reading labels ...

Empirical investigations of the role of human capital require accurate measures across countries and over time. This column describes a new dataset on educational attainment for 146 countries at ...

The only thing about this 1950s educational cartoon that’s more remarkable than its stylishness is how badly it botches its core prediction. It projects that between 1957 and 1975, electricity use in ...