Google and researchers from MIT Scratch are celebrating the 50th anniversary of children learning to code by releasing a new Google Doodle, which also is a coding-themed game. "Coding for Carrots" lets students lead an animated rabbit through a block maze in search of carrots.

Teens with smartphone or internet addiction show higher levels of a neurotransmitter that slows down brain signals, researchers reported at the Radiological Society of North America meeting. The research linked the impact on the brain signals to increased levels of addiction, anxiety and depression, one radiology professor said.

Laptops are seen as an important tool for studying by 86% of college students, and 53% say they prefer classes that use digital tools, according to McGraw-Hill Education's 2017 Digital Study Trends Survey.

Educator and administrator Ben Johnson has developed strategies to help him cope with unexpected workplace changes. In this blog post, he shares three strategies to help educators navigate the changes that come with an altered school population or new curriculum.

Service learning grants all students the chance to get outside conventional learning confines and explore the world around them, while providing them with a range of other interpersonal and intra-personal benefits as well.

Some schools nationwide are engaging students through competency-based education by letting them use practical experiences to fulfill some academic requirements. At a school in Maine, a student earned the art credits he needed to graduate by pursuing a passion outside of school -- creating wooden duck decoys.

Numbers matter when it comes to college admissions. Prospective college students typically submit SAT or ACT scores, plus their GPA, as part of their application, and many higher education experts believe GPAs reveal how students will do in college.

A professional-development programme aimed at motivating teachers will reach 80,000 teachers this year -- primarily in Uganda and India. The model, overseen by nonprofit STIR Education, seeks to help educators discover their intrinsic motivation.

New York City educator Jessica Silva is teaching computer science by having students unplug their devices at first and then use interactive games to learn about algorithms that can be used to code. Silva's school is one of 23 elementary schools taking part in the city's Computer Science for All initiative, now in its second…

Recording and observing themselves teaching has been a "saving grace," suggest Keisha Motley, a fourth-grade teacher, and Jessica Reynolds, a math interventionist. In this blog post, the educators share how they use the videos to help improve teaching and learning.

Business software company Oracle is building a space on its California campus for an existing public charter school through a partnership between Oracle and Design Tech High School. The partnership will include new workshop space for students and opportunities for company employees to mentor students.

When examining changes at Washington Elementary this school year, the walls jump out first. A new mural waits inside the front door. Students’ pictures adorn hallways. Teachers' classrooms have their own custom paint jobs.