Here’s how school and IT leaders can help parents and guardians navigating online platforms and digital tools with their children this year.

Approaches to taking classes outside to prevent the spread of COVID-19 can vary depending on a variety of factors, including location and resources.

How can I teach music if the kids aren’t allowed to sing indoors? How will lag time affect group singing online? How will I make students feel seen and heard via Zoom? Those were some of the questions that elementary music teacher Angela Carpenter spent her summer trying to figure out.

Drawing on their panel discussion at an assessment conference, grading experts Susan Brookhart, Thomas Guskey, Jay McTighe, and Dylan Wiliam, share eight principles that will help grading be part of a balanced assessment system. Read more in Educational Leadership.

Young people are experts in their own lives, writes Nicole Williams Beechum. Start treating them that way.

Teacher and student voices: challenges, opportunities and dilemmas. (pdf)

A comparative analysis of educational outcomes among refugee children in the Nordic countries. (pdf)

Børn med flygtningebaggrund, der ankommer til nordiske lande i den sene skolealder, klarer sig dårligere i skolen i Danmark, end de gør i Sverige. Det viser en ny videnskabelig undersøgelse fra det nordiske CAGE projekt med deltagelse af forskere fra Københavns Universitet.

Math anxiety is real for kids and adults. But parents can help. The solution goes beyond equations and textbooks.  

Vetenskapen kan vässa läraren – men det är läraren som är experten och vet vad som funkar i klass­rummet. Det säger Jared Cooney Horvath, som lämnade lärar­yrket för att fördjupa sig i neurovetenskap.

Researchers studied survey responses of over 12,600 youths ages 11 to 15 and found that the more youths saw their parents as loving, the less likely they were to engage in cyberbullying.

Despite the challenges, distance learning can work well for some students with ADHD, researchers say. Some of those who aren't around peers are finding it easier to focus.