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.

The on-time high-school graduation rate for the class of 2015-16 was 84.1% -- up from 83.2% the previous year -- according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Data show improvement among students of color, students with disabilities and students from low-income families, but some gaps still remain.

Children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder who played a video game for four weeks showed signs of improvement in a study of 348 children between ages 8 and 12. The company that produces the game plans to seek approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to make the first prescription video game.

Students may opt to take a gap year between high school and college for a variety of reasons, including to gain work experience before their undergraduate studies or to travel and expand their cultural horizons.

Trots att svenska elever presterat dåligt i matematiktester i internationella mätningar de senaste åren, så kan trenden vända med hjälp av förändringar i undervisningen.

Skolerne og lærerne skal have friheden til at dyrke fagligheden tilbage lyder et bud på, hvordan børns læseevner igen kan blive bedre.