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.

On a typical school night, while most chemistry students are solving homework problems, Verona High School junior Alison Ford is watching her teacher lecture on her iPod Touch.

While back-to-school shopping season is still months away, instructional technology specialist Andrew Marcinek suggests that many traditional items can be replaced by purchasing an iPad for students.

Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other - using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLE), and learn more at…