More children are swapping books for phones as study reveals that one in 10 young adults has never read a novel.

Calculators have yet to be used to their full potential in maths classes, Jeanne Carroll, a senior lecturer at the College of Education at Victoria University in Australia, writes in this commentary.

Officials in the United Kingdom are focusing more on monitoring teaching quality at institutions of higher education. Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, recently summarised those efforts.

"As we begin a new school year, it is easy to fall into the trap of planning, conducting meetings, and focusing on the first day of school," writes ASCD EDge community member Steven Weber.

Many school districts in Indiana have policies in place regarding students' use of social media. While their activity is not monitored in many cases, administrators say they do react when bad behavior is brought to their attention. They also communicate with students about appropriate online behavior and encourage parents to get involved.

It can be challenging to encourage teachers to adopt fast-changing technology, says Jenna Shaw, a school technology leader.

Training administrators on what to look for and how to support teachers is critical to a strong project-based learning program.

It’s back-to-school time, and it’s not just kids feeling the anxiety. Parents have their own set of worries with a new school year starting, so, here is some help from Laura Bay, an educator from Washington state who is the president of the National PTA.

Children with maths-anxious parents are more likely to struggle with the subject themselves.

Goal-setting closed achievement gaps in a recent experiment. The key element? Students put their thoughts in writing.

When you have to remember many things at once, you might try to juggle all those to-do items in your head simultaneously. But new scientific research suggests there might be a better approach.

Schools are teaching sketchnoting as an innovative way to help students synthesize information that's important. Doodlers are making connections from what they hear to what they draw.