Planning for Earth Day 2014 is well underway around the world. Bring environmental issues to your classroom with resources from PBS LearningMedia.

Teachers can inspire young poets by incorporating multimedia presentations, popular music and student artwork into poetry assignments, former teacher Beth Holland writes.

Sixth-graders at Bismarck Public Schools are getting the skills they need to succeed in a digital world. A new class is teaching sixth graders how to be computer literate and stay safe online.

High-achieving minority students and those from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to take college admissions exams, Advanced Placement exams and perform well on other measures of high achievement than their peers, according to a report released Wednesday by The Education Trust.

Seven challenges facing schools trying to shake up the education paradigm and solutions to push forward.

A recent survey shows that effective principals positively benefit teachers, students and school culture. Among other things, such principals are more likely to see improved student achievement, engagement and teacher satisfaction, the survey found.

Educator Matt Levinson in this blog post offers four strategies teachers can use to ease students' anxiety about learning new material or facing assessments. Among the ideas, Levinson suggests having students write down what they know as a "brain dump," both to demonstrate what they've learned and later serve as a study guide.  

White British children are being outperformed in key GCSE subjects by those who speak English as a second language.

Lektion 10. Sfi-läraren Sara Lövestam visar eleverna hur man kan redigera artiklar på nätuppslagsverket Wikipedia och på så sätt bli mer delaktig i samhället.

Lektion 9. Sfi-läraren Sara Lövestam utnyttjar elevernas kunskaper och tips när lektionen handlar om att använda sig av digital teknik och internet.

Lektion 8. Sfi-läraren Sara Lövestams elever dokumenterar sin språkutveckling genom att spela in sin egen röst.

Privacy concerns have put the breaks on many efforts to use “big data” in education. Why are people so skittish of education data when other kinds of digital information are readily accessible?