The Odyssey is 3,000 years old, but teacher Peter Worley finds it's still relevant in his philosophy lessons today.

Now that President Obama has proposed a new initiative to broaden preschool programs, the debate about the value of early childhood education has gotten a lot louder. To help sort out what is true and what isn’t, W. Steven Barnett, director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University, has just released…

Flera undersökningar säger samma sak. Att få ett könsord kastat efter sig, bli utsatt för sexuella trakasserier är saker som sker på skolorna. Forskaren Katja Gillander Gådin som ansvarar för undersökningen på Fyrvalla i Östersund har visat att det är högre utsatthet på praktiska program jämfört med på teoretiska.

De danske skoleelever skal være dygtigere. Og derfor skal de have flere timer i skolen. Det siger undervisningsminister Christine Antorini. Men det passer bare ikke. Man får ikke dygtigere elever af at give dem flere timer. Det konkluderer den forskning, Antorini bruger til at underbygge sine argumenter for en skolereform, som lægger op til flere…

Selv babyer født tre måneder for tidlig kan skille mellom ”ba” og ”ga”. Hjernescanning av spedbarn født tre måneder for tidlig antyder at den språkspesialiserte hjernen er medfødt.

Fler datorer i skolan ger inte automatiskt bättre måluppfyllelse. Teknik, pedagogik och innehåll måste följas åt. Därför står pedagogiken i centrum när Tierp storsatsar på fortbildning om digitala verktyg.

Lekar med inslag av våld eller andra kränkningar bör motarbetas inom ramen för skolornas breda arbete mot kränkningar och trakasserier. Det är Skolverkets slutsatser i en ny rapport.

Summer-born students are considerably less likely to win places at Oxford and Cambridge than teenagers with autumn birthdays, it was claimed today.

Can learning through play really help teachers to achieve their formal lesson goals? Catch up on all the views and insights from our live chat on learning through play.

Educators in San Diego County in California are working to incorporate Common Core State Standards in their curriculum in anticipation of the official rollout of the standards in 2014. In one math class, students are asked to show how they reached a particular answer and to think critically about peers' answers.

Technology can have instructional and practical benefits in the classroom, suggests Scott Steinberg, a speaker and author who shares seven such uses in this blog post. He recommends using an application to track students' attendance and behavior, using digital tools to foster collaboration, recoding lectures and notes and establishing digital ways to communicate with families.

Some of the most important subject areas and activities we want students to learn are the very ones that are left out of many schools: the arts, computer programming, and learning to making things by hand.