As the teaching unions join the polarised debate over the best way of educating the under-fives, there is middle ground, says Estelle Morris.

Intellectually talented kids “don’t get the attention of policymakers,” said psychology professor David Lubinski of Vanderbilt University. “But if you’re trying to solve problems in the world like climate change and terrorism and STEM innovation, and transportation and managing our healthcare, you want intellectually precocious youth who have had their intellectual needs met".

Drummer Clayton Cameron breaks down the beats behind different types of music, illustrating how he uses math every time he picks up the drumsticks. This TED-Ed talk gets people dancing in their seats!

Klass 3 B på Fylsta skola i Kumla är bland de hundra bästa i landet. Totalt har deras hemsida på webben haft cirka 35 000 visningar sedan starten i första klass.

Five years ago, an Indian schoolboy struck up an unlikely friendship with a retired teacher in London - and with her help he is now studying to be a doctor. Even though they live thousands of miles apart and have never met, they can't imagine life without each other.

Helena von Malortie, textil- och bildlärare på mottagningsskolan Mosaik i Malmö, brinner för att se hur det skapande arbetet stimulerar eleverna att lära sig svenska. De kreativa ämnena ger också utrymme för många att bearbeta ursprung, identitet och värderingar, säger hon.

Increased use of smartphones in the classroom, computer coding, social media for peer review and video were some of the major education-technology trends highlighted during the recent British Education and Training Technology conference.

Students' reliance on digital devices may be weakening their face-to-face communication skills, Louisville, Ky., teacher Paul Barnwell writes in this commentary. After observing his high-school English class struggle to hold conversations, Barnwell realized "that conversational competence might be the single-most overlooked skill we fail to teach students".

Microsoft expands its Bing-without-ads search engine to all K-12 schools.

Targeted training for teachers in mobile technology could improve student achievement and interest in science, technology, engineering and math, according to a recent study of a partnership between the International Society for Technology Education and the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program, which provides professional development to schools nationwide.

It's common in the classroom for teachers to involve students in the process of putting their chairs on their desks at the end of the day, educator Jim Dillon writes.

Project-based learning and STEAM -- the integration of the arts into science, technology, engineering and math lessons -- are gaining momentum in the classroom, writes Andrew Miller, an educational consultant and online teacher.