Education and Learning experts & authors

Explore education and learning through the work and perspectives of Anya Kamenetz, Avi Loeb, Barbara Oakley, and other authors on Chapters.

30 profiles on Chapters.

• Anya Kamenetz

  Anya Kamenetz is an American journalist and author whose books examine higher education, standardized testing, family screen time, and the pandemic’s effects on children.

  Selected work: DIY U

• Avi Loeb

  Avi Loeb is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist at Harvard University whose work spans astrophysics, cosmology, and controversial proposals about extraterrestrial technology.

  Selected work: Extraterrestrial

• Barbara Oakley

  Professor of engineering, author of A Mind for Numbers.

  Selected work: A Mind for Numbers

• Brian Greene

  Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist and Columbia University professor whose research concerns string theory and whose nonfiction books explore physics and cosmology.

  Selected work: The Hidden Reality

• Carlo Rovelli

  Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer whose work spans quantum gravity, the philosophy of science, and popular science.

  Selected work: L'ordine del tempo

• Daniel Willingham

  Author of Why Don't Students Like School?.

  Selected work: Why Don't Students Like School?

• David Epstein

  Author of Range.

  Selected work: Range

• DK Publishing

  DK is a British multinational publisher specialising in illustrated non-fiction reference books for adults and children across a broad range of subjects.

  Selected work: Help your kids with computer science

• Doug Lemov

  Author of Teach Like a Champion.

  Selected work: Teach Like a Champion

• John Hattie

  New Zealand pedagogue and education researcher, author of Visible Learning.

  Selected work: Visible Learning

• John Palfrey

  John Palfrey is an American educator and law professor whose work focuses on emerging media, Internet freedom, and access to information.

  Selected work: BiblioTech

• Josh Waitzkin

  Author of The Art of Learning.

  Selected work: The Art of Learning

• Julia Freeland Fisher

  Author of Who You Know.

  Selected work: Who You Know

• Katie Novak

  Author of UDL Now!.

  Selected work: UDL Now!

• Ken Robinson

  Author of The Element.

  Selected work: The Element

• Malala Yousafzai

  Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and author who advocates for girls' schooling and co-founded the Malala Fund.

  Selected work: I Am Malala [Young Readers adaptation]

• Nate Silver

  Nate Silver is an American statistician and author who uses statistical models to analyze elections, professional sports, and the challenges of prediction.

  Selected work: The Signal and the Noise

• Pasi Sahlberg

  Pasi Sahlberg is a Finnish education expert, author and professor whose work examines educational change in Finland and its lessons for other countries.

  Selected work: Finnish lessons

• Paul Tough

  Canadian-American writer and broadcaster, author of How Children Succeed.

  Selected work: How Children Succeed

• Richard Dawkins

  Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and science communicator whose nonfiction books explain evolution, natural selection, and the gene-centred view of life.

  Selected work: The Greatest Show on Earth

• Robin Wall Kimmerer

  Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Potawatomi botanist, educator, and author whose work draws on Western science and Indigenous environmental knowledge.

  Selected work: Braiding Sweetgrass

• Salman Khan

  Author of The One World Schoolhouse.

  Selected work: The One World Schoolhouse

• Sam Kean

  Sam Kean is an American science writer whose six books explore scientific discoveries through narrative accounts.

  Selected work: The Disappearing Spoon

• Scott Young

  Author of Ultralearning.

  Selected work: Ultralearning

• Steven H. Strogatz

  Steven H. Strogatz is an American mathematician and author whose work spans nonlinear systems, synchronization, applied mathematics, and public understanding of mathematics.

  Selected work: Infinite Powers

• Sugata Mitra

  Sugata Mitra is an education researcher known for the Hole in the Wall experiments and self-organized learning environments.

  Selected work: The School in the Cloud

• Todd Rose

  American Scientist (Born: 1974), author of The End of Average.

  Selected work: The End of Average

• Ulrich Boser

  Author of Learn Better.

  Selected work: Learn Better

• Workman Publishing

  Workman Publishing is an American publisher of adult and children's nonfiction, including the educational series Brain Quest and The Big Fat Notebooks.

  Selected work: Summer Brain Quest

• Zaretta Hammond

  Zaretta Hammond is an educator and consultant whose work connects neuroscience, culturally responsive teaching, and independent learning.

  Selected work: Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain