For educators, summer serves as a similar ‘sharpening season’ of sorts. As much as we love teaching, the end of the school year presents valuable time and opportunity to reflect, rejuvenate, retool, and ‘sharpen’ our skills through exploration, learning, and professional development.

There are several ways teachers can make grading fairer and less subjective, writes educator Cheryl Mizerny. In this blog post, she shares six strategies, including establishing clear criteria for graded work, reconsidering assigning zeroes and considering using weighted grade categories.

Essays, tests and final projects are often the culmination of learning. But English teacher Kendal Rolley says they can be valuable teaching tools, too.

Unlike in many other countries, young people in the US must take maths until they leave school. Now arts students in New York are staging a rebellion over it. So what is the right time to quit studying maths?

Toy company funds research suggesting educational development can be hindered by early formal schooling. So are UK schools getting it wrong?

Smart ideas for keeping students engaged as summer arrives.

When teachers model self-regulation and executive function skills throughout the school day to helps students productively manage their emotions and time.

It is not for educators to forcefully convert doubters into accepting evolution, but to build an inclusive classroom that respects religious students' beliefs.

Did you know that the time available for learning could have a positive effect on students' learning process, in particular, in the case of disadvantaged students? This report analyses the recommended minimum instruction time in full-time compulsory general education in 43 European education systems for the year 2018/19. (pdf)

Flagway is a game designed for kids who have self-doubt about their math skills, enjoy being physical and are in need something way different than worksheets.

Smartphone-driven social media is one of the main drivers of stress among students, research shows. Now, some schools are taking steps to help reduce students' anxiety by engaging students in mindfulness activities, hiring outside firms to scan social media for signs students need additional support, and encouraging students to unplug.

The Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students (TRAILS) program trains K-12 counselors and social workers to teach students how to manage their thoughts, feelings and actions with cognitive behavioral therapy.