About 120 schools are expected this fall to introduce a free, student-directed learning system developed by Facebook and a nonprofit charter-school group based in California's Silicon Valley. The Summit Personalized Learning Platform aims to put students in charge of choosing and managing their projects.

Students who play video games may perform better in maths than peers who opt for engaging with social media, according to a study published in the International Journal of Communication. Researchers considered data for 12,000 Australian teens.

What goals will drive educational change this school year? Four education leaders share their guiding principles for the 2016-17 academic year, including an emphasis on "truthful kindness and necessary action" when responding to students' needs.

A lack of concrete information about student misconduct—and how to address it—may be hindering efforts to make campuses safer.

Top-performing schools invest in early education, teacher quality, and career and technical education, according to a study by the National Conference of State Legislatures. The study considers lessons from Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Ontario, Poland, Shanghai, Singapore and Taiwan.

Learning how to think about thinking can help students develop strategies for solving problems and understand tasks at hand.

Tonåringar som ofta spelar onlinespel har bättre skolresultat än de som gör det sällan eller aldrig. Det visar ny forskning från Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Men att vara aktiv i sociala medier har en omvänd koppling till resultaten, enligt forskarna.

Kråkan och Mamma Mu är bästa vänner men olika som bär, som blåbär och smultron. Ändå lär de av varandra, precis som förskolebarn gör.  

Studien Problemlösning som utgångspunkt – matematikunder­visning i förskoleklass visar både hur idérik och varierad matematikundervisning kan vara, men uppmanar också varje lärare att reflektera över vilka normer som råder i det egna klassrummet, skriver förskolläraren Annika Persson.

A national study of almost every tenth-grader in Chile found that having a growth mindset strongly correlates to academic achievement. Students from low-income families were also less likely to report a growth mindset.

The four STEM apps get kids moving in different ways, whether by looking up at the sky, analyzing how their own bodies move, discovering unique objects to photograph, or getting muddy at their local watershed.

Vad ska vi ha förskolan till? Den frågan ställer redaktörerna till antologin Förskola i rörelse och förändring i förordet. Det säger något om radikaliteten i fyra projektarbeten med barn i olika åldrar.