Varje tid strävar att skapa den skola som passar samhällets krav. På 1800-talet och det tidiga 1900-talet skapades en folkskola som skulle leverera lydiga och flitiga arbetare. Idag ställs kravet att utbilda för entreprenörskap, kreativitet och livslångt lärande. Skolan är och har alltid varit en arena för ideologiska motsättningar och politikerna har under åren genomfört…

Educator Todd Nesloney explains in this Q&A his plans to lead a new fourth- and fifth-grade school in Texas based on project-based learning and using social media. Among other ideas, Nesloney discusses flipped classrooms and collaborative student projects using technology, plus a summer professional-learning series for educators using Twitter.

Blended and Flipped Classrooms can give students more control over their learning path. Added to that, the teachers get more insight into the learning of the class and can intervene as required. Technology plays an important role in blending the classrooms.

A California district discovered that students who miss the most school are between ages 4 and 6, a trend reflected in some schools in other states, according to this article. Steps school officials have taken to reverse the trend include home visits and after-school programs.

Research shows that reshaping physical learning environments to emphasize collaboration and mobility can help boost student performance. Space for students to move around and work together, muted colors and comfortable seating areas are among the ideas educators and others share in this article.

‘I decided I could do a better job.’ Kiran Sethi, dissatisfied with her son’s education, designed her own curriculum - and watched her project flower into a campaign for child-friendly cities in India.

Splitting classes by ability undermines efforts to help disadvantaged children, finds research into English primaries.

If you’re wondering why a particular song is catchy, it may be because you’ve heard it before on the radio, in a store, on a soundtrack. Elizabeth Hellmuth Margullis, director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas, says that repetition creates an opening for the listener to become imagined participants in the song.

På Björken samlas de barn som har det så svårt i skolan att ingen annan utväg finns. Men det är ingen dålig utväg. Tvärtom.

In order to improve the teaching of mathematics, it is essential that teachers understand how the pupils think when they solve a problem. Insights from research.

Är de nationella proven ett bra verktyg för bedömning eller kan de rentav ha negativa konsekvenser för elevernas lärande? Forskarna Gunnar Sjöberg och Eva Silfver har följt införandet av proven i matematik i årskurs 3.    

Kanske är det en tillfällighet, men efter en tid av relativ tystnad har ännu en ny bok om lek getts ut, denna gång av Studentlitteratur. Oavsett om det är på författarnas eller förlagens initiativ, tänker jag att den nya leklitteraturen kan bidra till balans och utveckling av förskolans innehållsdiskussioner. Senare års fokus har till stor…