After struggling to accept her own name in school, educator Huda Essa sees students' names as both an important part of their identity and gateways to foster respect for cultural diversity in the classroom.

Research supports the benefits of learning to be bored versus spending time looking at a screen, according to this blog post.

The global wealthy will soon be able to send their children to a top English private school without having to leave home. Harrow is setting up a virtual sixth form which will teach A-levels online to pupils anywhere in the world.

Bullying behaviour often emerges in childhood, and the consequences for victims can last a lifetime. But what makes a child become a bully?

When teachers give students the space to pursue inquiry, kids can take more ownership of their own learning and generate authentic questions.

A Kentucky school district held a "pop-up school" this summer aimed at supporting struggling students through deeper learning, writes teacher Donna Neary. In this commentary, she describes the "adventures" students went on as part of the program, dubbed the Backpack League.

Hotter temperatures affect students' ability to learn, according to an analysis by R. Jisung Park, an environmental and labor economist at UCLA's department of Public Policy and the Luskin Center for Innovation. Data shows, however, that snow days did not affect learning.

Students who engage in active learning learn more -- but feel like they learn less -- than peers in more lecture-oriented classrooms. That's in part because active learning is harder than more passive learning, according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  

Female students appear to be better at sustaining accuracy over time during tests, according to a study that looks at data from the Program for International Student Assessment and compares student performance at different stages of tests.

There are five keys to effective school leadership, writes Matthew Joseph of Milford Public Schools in Massachusetts. In this commentary, he shares a blueprint, which includes a focus on vision, goals, action plan, action and reflection.

Cash-strapped universities might be tempted by AI tutors, but they cannot reproduce human creativity or insight, writes Mark Haw, senior lecturer in chemical and process engineering at the University of Strathclyde.

Students aren't always aware of the progress they are making or how their emotions affect their learning throughout the year. These strategies can help make those things visible to them.