La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, is piloting a companion robot for students with special needs in a Victorian school. Based on teacher input, the highly interactive robot, Matilda, teaches social and academic skills, such as offering fun activities for students who can wait their turn.

Lessons from those who have overcome trauma are helping pupils confront their own personal challenges.

Amerikanske elever fik bedre resultater, da de fik lov at starte skoledagen 55 minutter senere om morgenen.

Teen girls and boys who used social media more than five hours daily had 50% and 35% higher depressive symptoms, respectively, compared with peers who had one to three hours of daily social media use, indicating a stronger link between social media use and depression among girls, UK researchers reported in the journal EClinicalMedicine.

Educators should create opportunities for students -- particularly English-language learners -- to use academic language in the classroom, writes Valentina Gonzalez, a professional-development specialist for ELLs in Texas.

Developers should consider the science around learning and memory when building education apps, suggests psychologists from the Swiss Distance Learning University, the University of Bonn in Germany and the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Researchers are considering strategies to help improve test results for students taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Among the issues, according to researchers at the University of Leuven, is that the current use of multiple-choice questions rewards guessing in some cases.

Principal Rebecca Steck and computer teacher Jennifer Vespucci describe the skills they are focusing on for their middle-schoolers when integrating the Chromebooks and iPads purchased for their school.

Policies to tackle social mobility have been largely misdirected. While rates of upward social mobility have fallen, downward mobility has risen.

Because of the complexity of schools' work, every teacher might envision the coaching relationship differently. What's consistent is the desire to feel supported on a "heart level," writes coach Kristen Moreland.

Det er vigtigt at justere folkeskolen, men man må ikke forandre folkeskolen hele tiden, mener forskningschef.

Function Follows Form: How Two Colleges Redesigned the Classroom for Active Learning.