Når gutter begynner på skolen, kjenner de igjen færre bokstaver enn jenter gjør. Forskjellen er like tydelig ved slutten av skoleåret.

Math teacher Giulia Bini used a video game and YouTube videos to help teach calculus to students. Bini assigned a video game as homework and through it, as well as other strategies, she says students' grades increased 10%.

Sustaining transformative change to complicated school systems is hard work, requiring leaders to attend to five pillars: permission, support, community engagement, accountability and staying the course.

Repeated failure can result in student disengagement, but some educators are testing strategies to help combat this cycle. Math teacher Michael Gallin is one such educator who is helping students address math phobia by helping them learn from failure.

Teachers and policymakers see advantages of education beyond the classroom for children, from fitness to resilience.

If we could understand how the infant mind develops, it might help every child reach their full potential. But seeing them as learning machines is not the answer.

Schools are moving toward a model of continuous, lifelong learning in order to meet the needs of today’s economy.

Elias är ny språklärare på Tammelanskolan i Tammerfors i södra Finland. Elias kan 23 språk, har oändligt tålamod och får aldrig en elev att skämmas för sina frågor. Elias är även en robot.

Some teachers can take on students' trauma as their own, suggests Alex Shevrin, a community college teacher and former school leader. In this blog post, she shares her own experience with vicarious trauma and offers tips on how to cope.

Grouping students by ability could harm the achievement of lower-performing students, according to a report published in the Cambridge Journal of Education. Researchers considered feedback from English and maths teachers at 82 schools in England and found that ability grouping can lead to a "cycle of restricted opportunity".

The programs that can turn a backward slide into a jump ahead.

Some school districts have adopted four-day weeks to help address funding gaps and issues unique to rural communities. Research on the model's benefits for students is limited, but some data show that attendance rates improve under a four-day model.