There are many reasons why students can’t make it to school as planned: snow days, a local disaster, a flu outbreak or professional development days for teachers. But does that mean that all teaching and learning should come to a screeching halt?

Some college professors and K-12 educators in Ohio are integrating cutting-edge technology in classroom lessons. Among them are high-school teacher David Kaser, whose students are using virtual-reality headsets in the classroom.

A brain-mapping exercise helps to explain why some people are creative -- and others are not as creative -- suggests Roger Beaty, a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive neuroscience at Harvard University. In this commentary, Beaty, who led the study, explains what makes some people more creative than others.

Hur upplever lärarna samarbetet med elevhälsan? Denna artikel presenterar resultat från fokusgrupper och enkäter med lärare om deras upplevelse av samverkan med andra professioner i skolan. Elevhälsan kan inkludera professioner som läkare, psykolog, kurator, sjuksköterska samt speciallärare och specialpedagog. Vilka professioner som är aktuella i olika skolformer kan variera nationellt och internationellt men tillgängligheten verkar…

EdSurge spoke with two educators who are working to merge ideas from science fiction novels with our reality.

Chronically low-performing states must work to overcome structural disadvantages and longstanding challenges that many of them share.

Some teachers are tapping virtual reality in classroom lessons. Three educators show how they are using virtual reality, including a high-school teacher who takes students on virtual field trips and another who introduced a virtual-reality lab.

Teaching children with iPads means they become disinterested in lessons without technology, an expert has warned.

After they sat down at their desks at Montour Elementary School, the students quickly dove in and adjusted their characters and settings within their personal Minecraft accounts.

Den här månaden har Sveriges skolbarn återvänt till klassrummen efter jullovet, många med en ny telefon i fickan.

We asked teachers, professors, a psychiatrist and a technologist for their thoughts, and we heard a range of opinions on one of the most “weirdly divisive” issues in education.

Detta material vänder sig till dig som är lärare och undervisar vuxna i grundläggande litteracitet inom sfi eller svenska som andraspråk på grundläggande nivå. Materialet är framtaget för att visa ur ett didaktiskt perspektiv hur vuxna elever med kort eller ingen skolbakgrund kan stöttas i sin läs- och skrivinlärning.