Now more than ever, educators need valid, reliable data without devoting hours to assessment. Education leaders offer best practices for safeguarding student data.

Emotional intelligence may help protect students from bullying and keep students from perpetuating bullying behavior, according to experts.

En bra läxa förbereds, förklaras och följs upp av läraren och ska bidra till elevernas kunskapsutveckling. En bra läxa kräver inte att eleven får hjälp från föräldrar eller läxhjälpare för att klara av den. Det är några av slutsatserna i Skolverkets nya stödmaterial om läxor.

More school districts are integrating robotics into their K-12 STEM curricula and promoting robotics through after-school clubs and activities.

Data reveal access gaps to science, technology, engineering and math education among certain student populations, including minority and low-income students, teacher trainer and former scientist Anne Jolly writes in this blog post.

New research suggests that curiosity triggers chemical changes in the brain that help students better understand and retain information.

A New Hampshire high school has become a test case for using student-centered learning to boost performance and close the achievement gap.

Students in Wyoming elementary schools are learning math vocabulary and multiple methods for solving problems as part of a district's implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

Teens whose parents exerted greater psychological control over them were less likely to establish autonomy and outside connections than those with less-controlling parents, according to a study in the journal Child Development.

Some high-school teachers are finding ways to use massive open online courses in their classrooms as a supplemental source.

A new quiz designed to test parents and primary schoolchildren against the new maths curriculum has been launched today.

Skolverket har beslutat vilka lärosäten som får bedriva rektorsutbildningen 2015-2021. Umeå universitet blir ett av sex lärosäten som får uppdraget och det kommer att genomföras av Centrum för skolledarutveckling, som redan idag bedriver rektorsutbildning.