'If you don't support students who have difficult home lives, you lose them.' Teacher Alicia McKeown discusses how her own education informed her teaching career.

Dinosaurs provide an endless source of natural fascination for students. If you want to bring Jurassic Park into your classroom, here's a selection of lesson resources and ideas.

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Play is nothing if not social. Games organize play, allowing us to wrangle and experiment with the world. When we play games, more often than not, it’s us under the microscope.

Educators say the middle grades are a key time time to get kids jazzed about science, but many teachers say they lack the tools they need. In Chicago, a science museum is helping to fill the the gap.

A new school in San Francisco is combining the Silicon Valley startup model with progressive education tactics, creating classrooms as individual entities, using sensoring technologies to track kids’ progress, and building tech tools based on teacher requests.

There’s a new attention disorder in town, something called “sluggish cognitive tempo.” Right now, children who exhibit signs of this potential new disorder –daydreaming, lethargy and slow mental processing — are often treated as though they have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Elevene vil at lærernes tilbakemeldinger skal handle mer om fag. Skolen svarer med å prioritere trivsel.

Lærerstudentene skal ha praksisuker i skolene for å lære. Istedet fungerer de som ekstrahjelp for lærere som skal løse store og små utfordringer i klasserommet.

Elza Dunkels, forskare vid Umeå universitet, har i mer än 15 år studerat barns och ungas vanor på internet. I Forskarliv berättar hon att hon tycker att den alarmistiska bild som målas upp av nätmobbning och pedofiler på nätet behöver nyanseras och att föräldrars oro ibland kan ställa till det.

Skolverkets analyser visar på kraftigt ökande skillnader i kunskapsresultat mellan skolor, och även en ökad uppdelning av elever mellan skolor utifrån elevernas familjebakgrund.