A new study shows how mindfulness education in the classroom can reduce students' sense of stress and lengthen attention spans.

Students perform better in math and reading when they're led by teachers with strong cognitive skills, especially in countries that pay teachers more, according to an international study. Researchers say they found links between higher teacher pay and teachers who led improved student performance.

Emotions circulate through social networks — the good, bad and ugly. And these days, the feeling that seems most viral is anger. Sometimes it takes just one act of kindness to stop the vicious cycle.

Debunking the myth that English is the only language you need.

If smartphones are harming our ability to focus, how should teachers change their methods to give children the skills they need?

En ny spansk studie visar att elever presterar sämre när de läser på skärm. Forskaren Pablo Delgado menar att det kan få konsekvenser när de nationella proven digitaliseras.

While high-level change can move slowly in education, educators can adopt different strategies to make their own classrooms centers of reform, educator David Andrew Tow writes. Focusing on incremental change -- instead of large-scale reform -- and avoiding academic jargon when discussing new ideas with parents and students are among the suggestions Tow makes in…

School travel programmes provide several benefits to middle school students, including keeping them engaged in language learning at a critical time in their education, writes Heather Singmaster, director at the Center for Global Education at Asia Society. Singmaster tells about a Portland, Oregon Mandarin immersion program in which students travel to China and exercise their…

A study of students in Houston and Washington, D.C., found that those who were paid a small sum to complete math problems, homework and other academic tasks increased their likelihood to attend school by 1% and were 13.5% more likely to finish homework. University of New South Wales professor Richard Holden writes in this commentary…

Youths who were enrolled in a free lunch program at school for up to five years had 18% and 9% higher test scores in reading and math, respectively, compared with those who were enrolled in the program for less than a year, according to a study in the Journal of Development Economics. The findings were…

The human brain was not designed to read, and in the digital age people increasingly are skimming rather than reading in depth, according to two university educators. This trend could affect critical thinking and empathy that is fueled by deeper reading, asserts Maryanne Wolf of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Over en tredjedel af den samlede forskning i, hvor store skoleklasser bør være, bygger på et berømt amerikansk eksperiment kaldet STAR, som blev udført fra 1985 til 1989 i den amerikanske sydstat Tennessee. Men der er alvorlige fejl i de videnskabelige artikler om STAR-forsøget, afslører en ny analyse.