Instead of taking a lesson-by-lesson approach, teachers should be thinking about building understanding of a topic over time.

Valet av Tommy Ahlers, mest känd som entreprenör och affärsman, som ny minister för utbildning och forskning i Danmark får både ris och ros.

Risken för ett barn att dö före 5 års ålder är 60 procent högre i England än i Sverige. Studien visar att det är den svenska välfärden snarare än den svenska hälso- och sjukvården som förklarar skillnaden. Det skriver den engelska tidskriften The Lancet i en artikel som jämför dödligheten hos barn i åldern 0-4…

Minoritetsspråklige barn som har et godt ordforråd på morsmålet, utvikler det norske ordforrådet sitt raskere. I tillegg hjelper det å ha flere bildebøker hjemme.

Instead of taking a lesson-by-lesson approach, teachers should be thinking about building understanding of a topic over time.

Middle-school math teacher Michael Giardi uses hooks and prompts at the beginning of class to engage students. In this blog post, he describes how the approach promotes productive struggle and gets students thinking like mathematicians.

Students with autism at a Tennessee elementary school are learning social-interaction skills with the help of Milo the Robot. Teacher Billy Etter says students have shown across-the-board growth since they began interacting with Milo.

How do trips to the gym correlate with quitting school? 60 Minutes visits a college that's using predictive analytics to find out.

Bringing more students - including those who may be reluctant - into class discussions can help develop their communication and thinking skills, asserts educator Jori Krulder. In this blog post, she offers several tips for opening up classroom discussions to all students.

Writing improves our thinking by helping us focus and organize our thoughts, which allows us to communicate more effectively and demonstrate a deeper understanding of content. That's just as important to STEM learning as it is to English language arts. But what types of writing tasks are appropriate and engaging across content areas?

Not long after 'co-location' became a buzz word around Blenheim, one school was given a tidy sum to test modern learning. Jennifer Eder reports.

Curiosity may correlate to better performance in maths and reading among all students, but especially for those from low-socioeconomic backgrounds, according to a study published in the journal Pediatric Research. Researchers say the findings support more emphasis on curiosity in early learning.