An Ohio high school is in its second year of using the video-game-building program Zulama. The program allows students to use hands-on learning to create their own video games.

Linking success exclusively to exam results demoralises teachers – and it’s the most vulnerable pupils who pay the price.

Educators can use maths walks and other tools to spark an interest in maths outside the classroom, suggests Newcastle University teaching fellow Steve Humble. During maths walks, students are challenged to find objects with symmetry or patterns in everyday items around them, he writes.

Steve Silberman talks about how Nazi extermination plans and a discredited scientific paper about childhood vaccines shaped our current understanding of autism.

Students teach their peers the basics of computer programming through short how-to videos sponsored by the non-profit CodeNow.

Snoring and other breathing problems during sleep can put kids at risk for poorer performance in school, a new study confirms.

As they prepare a major trial of the idea, UK scientists say that starting school at 10:00 could have huge benefits for teenagers because it better matches their “biological clock".

Math anxiety is much like other fears, say scientists who scanned the brains of third-graders. One-on-one tutoring soothed the fear circuit in anxious kids’ brains and improved performance, too.

Elever på Torpskolan i Lerum har varit med och gjort ett spel som ska förbättra deras förmåga att kommunicera. Genom att i sällskapsspelsform prata om hur man säger saker till varandra lär de sig att se saker ur flera perspektiv.

Til sommer skal over 400 skoler deltage i projektet 'FIFA 11 for Health', men allerede nu kører 11 skoler et pilotprojekt. Fodbolden skal gøre børnene klogere på sundhed og særligt få de inaktive børn i gang. Forsker i sundhedspædagogik er dog skeptisk.  

Here’s a collection of ideas and resources for teaching everything from genetic mutation to cloning mice, just in time for Jeans for Genes Day.

It can be overwhelming, frightening and even discouraging to try and shift the culture of your classroom, especially when no one else around you seems to think the system is broken.