Threading prior knowledge into new material makes for more durable learning. Here are 12 research-backed, teacher-tested strategies to help kids unpack what they already know.

FDA and industry weigh broader use of prior knowledge in biotechnology testing and production. Efforts to streamline the development of new medicines, particularly breakthrough therapies, are focusing ...

Prior Knowledge debuted Veritable, a predictive database for application developers at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 today. Based upon work first done at MIT, the service is offered through the company’s ...

Prior Knowledge made it to the finals last year at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. They did not “wow” the judges, but their predictive database technology for developers certainly turned attention to what they ...

When students are reading something new, teachers often try to get them to draw on their prior knowledge to help them understand the text in front of them. Doing this can help kids make sense of ideas ...

New research suggests that too much knowledge can lead people to make worse decisions, pointing to a critical gap in our understanding of how new information interacts with prior knowledge and beliefs ...