Musikk kan være et verktøy i forebyggende arbeid i skolen.

Focusing on kindness is an approachable way to get kids in touch with their feelings and growing social intelligence.

Tulsa, Okla., has been the focus of much debate over the long-term benefits of preschool. The most recent findings by Georgetown University researchers are another strong endorsement for early ed.

Schools use the internet for a lot of learning: researching, virtual travel, watching videos. Educators say it opens their classrooms to the world. The removal of net neutrality could change all that.

Tulsa, Okla., has been the focus of much debate over the long-term benefits of preschool. The most recent findings by Georgetown University researchers are another strong endorsement for early ed.

Educators and students of CS50, a widely popular computer science class at Harvard that’s also available in a high school AP version, use a variety of tools to help with the collaborative part of learning computer science.

Direct instruction has been praised by the schools minister as more effective than a child-centred approach – but its use is controversial.

Better understanding the complex interplay between thoughts, feelings and behaviors can help adolescents see the possible realities of a situation.

Researchers say it takes a lot of brainpower to stop an action, once it's underway. A study found that when people have to change a planned movement, 11 different brain areas have to get involved.

About 20 states have included elements of personalized learning in their Every Student Succeeds Act plans, says Lillian Pace of KnowledgeWorks. Even so, Chip Slaven of the Alliance for Excellent Education says states' ESSA plans have not met overall expectations for innovation in schools.

Teachers go to great lengths to clearly define the problems our students will solve, how they should solve them, and what the outcomes should be. Although students can and do learn from highly planned tasks, there are serious drawbacks from relying too much on these kinds of learning experiences.

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