Education technology has received sizable investments, but stakeholders are just beginning to tap into its benefits, TPG Rise Fund education investor John Rogers writes in this commentary. Rogers outlines five edtech trends he envisions will take place during the next decade, including increased development of dual-language platforms and more vendors providing funding support for mental…

Math is often seen as a subject removed from everyday feelings and experiences. These ten books reveal the people who loved math and made it an important part of their identities.  

School leaders can't be effective without wading into social issues, argues David E. DeMatthews, associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin.

Looking beyond the traditional markers of classroom success, one district responded to alarming mental health data by committing to a social-emotional learning intervention

Learning difficulties are not linked to differences in particular brain regions, but in how the brain is wired, research suggests.

New study says student evaluations of teaching are still deeply flawed measures of teaching effectiveness, even when we assume they are unbiased and reliable.

Analyzing the themes in a literary work can be tricky for students, but a simple formula can scaffold the process.

Emily Higgins, director of the gifted and talented program at Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor Community School District in Maine, says she likes to have her students go beyond basic math and work on projects that integrate other skills and subjects. Higgins' sixth-grade student is using geography, coding, proportions and 3D printing to make a statistical model of…

In her new book, Lydia Denworth makes the case for the vital necessity of friendship, tracing its effects on your genes, on your brain and even on animals like sheep and fish.  

Educators hope that leading students in self-reflective exercises such as meditation will give them tools to handle stressful situations, said Amanda Moreno, an associate professor at Erikson Institute, a graduate school that trains professionals in child development. If children can expend less energy to stay calm, the theory holds, they’ll have more gusto for learning.