On the anniversary of George Floyd's death, former headteacher Viv Grant says the past 12 months have offered hope for the future.

Interactive notebooks that hold bell work, lab data, and class notes serve as a portfolio of learning - for the benefit of both students and their teacher.

I förskolan Fölungen börjar barnen bekanta sig med skrivandet redan som ettåringar. "Meningsfullhet, lust och intresse måste vara det som styr", säger förskolläraren Eva-Lotta Hallindemo.

Underskatta inte klottret. Det visar att även de yngsta barnen har stor koll på hur man förmedlar ett budskap i skrift. Dags för förskolan att lära sig att läsa tecknen, skriver Elisabeth Björklund, tidigare lektor i didaktik vid Högskolan i Gävle.

För barn är det naturligt att talspråk och skriftspråk hänger ihop. I öppna, insiktsfulla samtal om språk och text utvecklas den språkliga medvetenheten och lusten för skrivande väcks, skriver forskaren Elisabeth Mellgren.

Tidigare forskning har visat att familjebakgrund och föräldrars yrkesval ofta påverkar val av utbildning. Men nu har forskare som studerat utbildningsmönster i Sverige, Kroatien, Chile och USA sett att även att äldre syskon har inflytande över valet.

More off-campus broadband access. New ways of engaging with families. Growing concerns over digital equity and the silos that exist within school systems. These are some of the trends that emerged in a recent survey of district technology leaders.

New research suggests that's so: Toddlers who regularly spent time on electronic devices - including tablets, smartphones and TVs - were less likely to read print books with their parents at age 3. That, in turn, translated to even more screen use by age 5.

Teachers say pandemic-related setbacks in mathematics will linger well into the coming school year, especially for students who suffered the most during shutdowns. Unable to peer over their students’ shoulders and correct their work, math teachers lost the ability to offer on-the-spot tutorials.

With a return to in-person learning on the horizon, how do schools ensure continuing availability of accessible technologies?

For math teachers who will have students learning at home next year, fostering a feeling of community will be as important as building skills.

Education-technology companies have many opportunities to collect data on students, a concept that Velislava Hillman, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, wants school leaders, academics and policy makers to reconsider.