A program pays teachers to visit students at home and meet with their family. The home visits have helped parents become better-informed advocates for their kids and stronger allies with teachers.

Ord som "furthermore", "maturity" och "opportunities" kryddar texterna när hängivna dataspelare skriver skoluppsatser på engelska. En ny studie tyder på att denna grupp får ett större ordförråd, och även bättre betyg, än de som inte spelar.

Elevernas perspektiv tas sällan till vara i forskningen om inkludering. För lite intresse har också riktats mot inkluderingsprocesser inne i klassrummet. Claes Nilholm och Barbro Alm förvånas över de många bristerna i forskningen om inkludering. Det är ju för elevernas skull som inkluderingen görs.

Förskolläraren Birgit Allard började utveckla metoden Lärande lek redan 1991. Nu när Birgit har gått i pension jobbar kollegan Annika Andréasson vidare med metoden i förskoleklassen på Grevegårdsskolan i Göteborg.

As a black, female astrophysicist Jedidah Isler has always felt she occupied a liminal space between identities. She describes how that complex identity makes people like her an important piece of solving the world’s most complex problems.

Barn som spelar mycket dataspel har stora chanser till bra betyg i engelska. Det konstateras i en ny studie från Karlstad Universitet.

Partnerships with community groups can help schools scale support for at-risk students, educator John Holland writes in this blog post. He focuses on Communities In Schools - a dropout program operating in 26 states - as one possible model.

Each day as the students leave and you sit and think about the day, do you reflect on how you can make your lessons more engaging or hands-on? Do you try new strategies for differentiation? What about researching engaging ideas online or observing colleagues? After each teaching day, I would reflect on what worked well…

Ellis is part of an innovative school program that seeks to use hip-hop music to reach teenagers who may not respond to more traditional counseling. Called hip-hop therapy, it encourages them to give voice to their day-to-day struggles in neighborhoods where poverty and crime are constants, and provides a foundation for school leaders to engage…

Some US universities are overhauling the training of future teachers with a greater focus on field training and online professional learning.

Researchers studying language acquisition have found young learners have a natural ability to build their own language structures, even when fully immersed in an environment in which their first language is spoken.

After eight years in the classroom, teacher Ben Culverhouse has learned that tone, impressions and accents can transform a classroom. Here’s how others can try them.