Thousands of pupils from inner-city primary schools will be given lessons in chess amid claims that the game can boost children's concentration levels and numeracy skills, it was announced today.

Students with learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, benefit more from visual lessons - not traditional note-taking - Tony Buzan, creator of a mind-mapping memorisation technique, told teachers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, during a recent presentation.

Despite a deeply held belief that success in college is crucial for success in life, the traditional path students assume they’ll take is more an exception than the rule, according to a new report.

Role play and interactive technology helped primary teacher Jeremy Dean increase his foreign students' English vocabulary at a language immersion school in Spain.

En ny bok pläderar för att det elevernas känsloliv och lust inte får glömmas bort när förmågorna ska utvecklas i skolan.

Hank Lanphier and Amy Yount, social studies teachers experimented with using Minecraft this year to transport students to an ancient Roman city.

While students are technology-savvy in their personal lives, they may be resistant to shifting to a one-to-one environment in school, writes David Jakes, coordinator of instructional technology.

Grouping students by ability has been controversial for years, but the trend is growing in education, according to research released today by the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on American Education.

A recent study of 75 countries, using a decade of data from the Programme for International Student Assessment, offers additional insight into the maths and reading gaps that exist among female and male students - with girls continuing to outperform boys in reading and male students excelling in maths.

Rollin Nordgren, verksam vid National University i La Jolla i Kalifornien, är i Katrineholm för att följa upp en studie han gjorde på skolor i kommunen 2001.

Sedan ett tag tillbaka finns det en app som används till att träna talet om ett barn inte har alla språkljud. Med Fonemo kan barnet uppleva att talträningen får ytterligare en dimension med roliga språkljud och lätt speltouch, genom att det är byggt som ett memory. Till memorytanken har apptillverkaren lagt till att prata högt.