Educators at a New Jersey elementary school are using Twitter to connect to the community, parents and colleagues outside of their school. Students write tweets about what they learn each day to be used as part of classroom feeds, which teachers hope parents use as starting points to discuss students' learning.

Din personlighed påvirker dine karakterer i gymnasiet og på universitetet mere end din IQ, viser ny forskning. Den viden kan man bruge til at indrette uddannelsessystemet bedre, vurderer forskere.

There are more than 300 virtual schools in operation nationwide, according to the National Education Policy Center. Some reports question the quality of these programs, educator Jen Karetnick writes in this commentary. She reflects on how inconsistencies in such programs from state to state can affect students.

Educators should tap into students' individual learning styles and involve students in designing lessons that are right for them, Alan November, veteran educator and senior partner and founder of November Learning, writes. In this commentary, he shares an experiment he has used to learn more about students' learning styles.

"Our role as teachers is not to do the learning for our students; our role is to find ways to help our students learn on their own," writes ASCD author and ASCD EDge community member Robyn Jackson.

Neurologist Judy Willis explores what kinds of homework help students at different stages of development and just how long out-of-hours work should take.

Asking users about their needs can open up the possibilities of what can be addressed by schools. As a result of design thinking, one school created a separate parents’ center.

A school in a low-income neighborhood in Tampa is tapping into community members to be a part of the learning experience for the children and the adults.

Vad är viktigast för att få en fungerande undervisning i klassrummen? Hur kan man skapa en skola som bygger på vetenskaplig bakgrund och beprövad erfarenhet? Medverkande: Ulf P Lundgren, Caroline Liberg, Elisabet Nihlfors, Lars Nyberg. Inspelat i Almedalen, Visby, 2014 (webb-tv).

Att undervisning berikar forskningen betonas på framstående universitet i USA och Storbritannien. Det borde vi också erkänna i Sverige. Det skriver Vetenskapsrådets generaldirektör Sven Stafström i en replik på universitetskansler Harriet Wallbergs inlägg om att det borde anses lika viktigt att vara excellent lärare som att vara excellent forskare.

Ulla Damber är lektor i läs- och skrivinlärning vid Umeå universitet, Jan Nilsson är lektor i svenska med didaktisk inriktning vid Malmö högskola och Camilla Ohlsson är adjunkt i svenska vid Högskolan Kristianstad. Tillsammans har de skrivit Litteraturläsning i förskolan.  

Rauni Karlsson har skrivit en angelägen och tänkvärd bok om vikten av att lyssna på och lära av barnens perspektiv.