Some schools in Singapore will use comics to help improve students' essay-writing skills. Low Yen Ling, senior Parliamentary secretary for education, recently announced a revised version of the Creative Comic Essay Writing Programme for schools, which focuses on boosting critical-thinking skills.

First grade teacher Kathy Cassidy shares why she believes it’s important to connect her young students with learners around the world.

Reflecting on how you’re doing in the classroom can help you take ownership of your teaching and identify areas for improvement.

A Harvard survey reveals that teens want more clear guidance about love and romantic relationships from their parents and teachers.

Reading specialist: How to engage students in reading.

The conversation about new teachers often focuses on the challenges they face in the classroom, English teacher Matthew Johnson writes. In this blog post, he shares some strengths that new teachers bring to the table, including fresh ideas, new perspectives and energy.

Students at a Kentucky elementary school have access to a new makerspace thanks, in part, to the help of three educators. The space includes high- and low-tech learning opportunities, including a take-a-part station in which students can disassemble devices to learn more about how they work.

Boothbay Region Elementary School fourth grade teachers Kathy Hartley and Jennifer Lassen have committed themselves and their students to a new concept of learning called oracy. Much like literacy and numeracy – competence in writing, reading and mathematics – oracy is competence in fluent dialogue through critical thinking.

American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know — and it’s shaping their ideas about pleasure, power and intimacy. Can they be taught to see it more critically?

Research suggests offspring of highly educated mothers benefit from extended parental leave.

In his series of articles on how psychology research can inform teaching, Bradley Busch picks an academic study and makes sense of it for the classroom. This time: research looking at self-control.

As kids get older, the activities that cultivate imagination often get sidelined by the demands of academics. Professor Wendy Ostroff explains why imagination is so important and has suggestions for bringing back the spark.