The chemistry students at Northwestern High School were not fiddling with Bunsen burners or studying the periodic table one recent weekday morning. They were sitting at their desks, reading an article about food coloring, underlining key ideas and preparing to analyze it in an essay.

Co-teaching is an instructional delivery where the mainstream teacher and specialist share teaching responsibilities within a single classroom to benefit all students' needs. When specialists and teachers collaborate through co-teaching practices, teachers often report positive experiences and believe that students show academic progress.

Every Tuesday SmartBrief on EdTech runs Tech Tips, a column featuring suggestions and recommendations from school technologists and tech-using educators. This month, we are running a roundup of the top tips from the year.

Spatial intelligence is a skill that is not widely taught, even though it's attributed to successful minds in creative fields and STEM.

Formal tests can’t measure complex ideas and creative thinking – so the University of Essex has ditched them altogetherUntil recently, philosophy students at the University of Essex – as in most other British universities – took written exams in the summer, after completing coursework during the year.

A Swedish study finds that in high school religious education courses both teachers and pupils often suggest that religions are unnecessary for modern people.

Thousands of events around the world are encouraging computer-coding literacy. "Coding is really about creative self-expression and storytelling," says Mitchel Resnick of MIT's Media Lab.

It’s called the “London effect” in educational circles. Since the mid-1990s, schools in the English capital have seen continuous improvements, making the city an educational success story for the most unlikely segment of British society: poorer children, in particular those with ethnic minority backgrounds.

Here’s some good fucking news—research published last month in the journal Language Sciences indicates that a vulgar vocabulary isn’t the mental crutch many believe it to be. In fact, people who swear more may have stronger language skills overall.

ASCD has gathered a list of holiday gift ideas for educators at every level. Each of these professional development resources can serve as the perfect gift for educators seeking to further their learning and improve their practice in the classroom, in schoolwide leadership and beyond.

Co-teaching is an instructional delivery where the mainstream teacher and specialist share teaching responsibilities within a single classroom to benefit all students' needs. In this ASCD Express article, Pooja Patel and Emily Abdallah share their co-teaching experience.