Mobile technology is becoming more popular in today's classrooms, according to a recent survey. A majority of educators - 86% - who responded to the survey said mobile technology bolsters student engagement, and 67 percent said it helps support personalized learning.

More schools in Minnesota are introducing classroom technology this school year. This article highlights how some school leaders have led the charge, from offering summer programs built around educators' personalized learning needs to sending teachers to large-scale events such as iPadPalooza.

Using music in the classroom helps to engage students, who will retain more information when it is set to a tune, writes Naphtali Hoff, a former educator and school administrator who now serves as an executive coach and consultant. In this blog post, Hoff makes the case for using music in the classroom to enhance…

En ny studie viser at de med høyere utdanning sjeldnere får demens mot slutten av livet. Folk som bare har grunnskole, har større risiko for å utvikle demens.

English teacher Matthew Godfrey weighs up the pros and cons of our burgeoning reliance on digital devices in the classroom.

Following a report suggesting that smaller class sizes have not led to increased achievement in Victoria, Australia, the state's regulation reform body has proposed reversing the trend, freeing up money to be spent instead on staff training and incentive pay for good teachers.

Regular access to phones, computers and television may affect children's abilities to recognize human emotions, according to a study in the journal Computers in Human Behavior. Researchers reported that students with no access to electronic devices for five days were better able to read human emotions and nonverbal cues than their peers who had access…

Districts should tap teachers to help lead the professional development and collaboration needed to implement Common Core State Standards, educator Susan Carle writes in this blog post. She shares some of her experiences leading colleagues in common core workshops.

A Florida district has become the largest player in a national movement to teach chess in public schools by providing weekly lessons to all of its 34,000 second- and third-graders. "I was skeptical of it in the beginning," teacher Justine Maver said. "But you can put (chess) with anything, math, science - it really works."

Da elevene på yrkesfag fikk bruke Youtube på skolen, ble de mer motivert til å gjøre det bedre i engelsk.

A project called Computer Science Unplugged teaches students computer science lessons without technology, allowing students to get to the core of what the field is based on -- computational thinking. The lessons incorporate physical activity as well as real-life objects that students are familiar with.

Skollagen säger att det ska vara en likvärdig skola för alla. Men så är det inte idag, enligt pedagogikforskaren Ann-Christin Torpsten. Och de som missgynnas mest är elever som har svenska som andraspråk.