The messages parents and educators convey to preschoolers can help strengthen kids for obstacles throughout life.

Seven educational innovations from around the world are changing how students learn and could provide best practices for other countries, according to this article.

Students who text or tweet a friend about what they have learned may increase their odds of remembering the information, according to a study from the National Communication Association. Researchers found that the benefits are similar to those experienced by students who take notes.

Game developers and researchers are creating video games to teach social-emotional skills to students, such as a virtual zoo that rewards students for empathetic actions and cooperation. Studies highlight the promise of building social skills with such games, but designers also are aware of the games' limitations.

Technology and logistics are making traditional strategic-planning models obsolete for school districts, writes Luvelle Brown, superintendent of the Ithaca City School District in New York. In this blog post, Brown highlights how social-networking tools can help keep stakeholders engaged in strategic planning.

Forskning är inte hemligheter och det är viktigt att den sprids i samhället. Det skriver Margareta Serder, forskare vid Malmö högskola, som vittnar om att hennes avhandling om PISA trivialiserats i mediala sammanhang.

Schools should discuss political issues in the classroom in order to get more young people to engage with politics, according to a study.

As a parent and dean, Julie Lythcott-Haims struggled with giving in to overparenting, while advising students who always had mom and dad on the sidelines.

For many of us, there are more things we want to learn than we have time for. And as information becomes more readily accessible online, the number of things we want to learn has only increased.

När förskollärare fostrar barn i förskolan drivs de av några grundläggande principer. I en avhandling vid Göteborgs universitet framgår hur de olika principerna i praktiken ofta kolliderar i förskolemiljön.

Sacrificing sleep and skipping meals to study in quest for academic excellence actually doesn't work, a new Harvard study shows.

Sixth-grade English teacher Cheryl Mizerny strives to get it "just right" in the classroom, but acknowledges she may never achieve "Goldilocks" status. In this blog post, she discusses how all the professional-development options available to educators today -- including online and in-person PD -- sometimes make it difficult to narrow the choices.