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Children with a chronic health condition perform below the basic academic requirements in literacy and numeracy compared to their peers, a study from UNSW Sydney and University of Sydney has found.

The coronavirus pandemic has increased stress and burnout for educators, but corporate wellness performance coaches Lauren Hodges and Phil Burton say a program they facilitated for teachers, education leaders and superintendents in California led to a 31% increase in self-perceived quality of life. In this blog post, they share insights into how educators can build…

The pandemic set off a great deal of expanding and contracting in the education sector. Some companies and services became obsolete without the availability of face-to-face experiences. Others found their footholds and took off. Outschool, a marketplace for small-group, live online classes for kids ages 3 to 18, certainly seems to have fallen into the…

Personalized education was already big pre-pandemic, but home schooling and digital instruction made more parents and teachers embrace the idea. With a shortage of human teachers, many schools jumped on the bandwagon of using technology that collects each child’s personal data and tailors content accordingly. Researchers, however, warn of three dangerous pitfalls.

“We know that teens’ use of social media increased during the pandemic, and along with this increase in time, we’ve seen more of both the positive and negative aspects of social media,” said Dr. Jacqueline Nesi, an assistant professor of psychology at Brown University who specializes in social media and adolescent development.

Trods manglende videnskabelig evidens er teorien om, at vi lærer bedst ved enten at se, høre, røre eller bruge kroppen, udbredt i Danmark. Selvom mange forskere er enige om at teorien om læringsstile er forkert, peger flere studier på, at den lever i bedste velgående blandt undervisere verden over.

Very little in teaching can truly be boiled down to five simple strategies (teaching is hard, and those who do it are heroic), but these suggestions can add to your remote-teaching skills.

Teacher shares how to help students get back on math track.

Only when we take the time to learn about the socioeconomic and historical backgrounds of our students and leverage their cultural strengths and knowledge, will our schools become spaces for healing from trauma.

Teachers can use advertisements in a variety of media to help students cement their science knowledge and develop media literacy skills.

The pandemic has shined a light on the importance of teaching educators about data privacy, according to Ellen Mandinach, senior research scientist at WestEd. Mandinach and the Future of Privacy Forum released two training resources this week -- the Student Privacy Primer and a guide to data ethics - aimed at better preparing K-12 teachers…