Både Steve McQueens film och Solomon Northups memoarbok blir utbildningsmaterial i amerikanska skolor.

Children in Timbuktu are returning to their classrooms almost a year since the ancient desert city was seized by Islamist militants. (webb-tv)

Hälften av alla brittiska familjer är beredda att riskera böter för att ta barnen på en semester utanför skollovet, visar en ny undersökning.

As education minister Liz Truss heads for China to learn the lessons of its success, Jonathan Kaiman reports from the classrooms of Beijing.

SMS system aims to reduce absenteeism in a country where teachers fail to turn up for their classes 27 procent of the time.

Childhood specialists say closure of council-run nurseries and children's centres risks long-term damage to the most vulnerable.

I takt med inklusionen mister mange specialskoler elever, men to fynske skoler har været nødt til at fyre flere lærere, end nedgangen i elevtallet berettiger. Lærerne og deres ekspertise forsvinder ud i det blå.

Distance learning students from around the world share pictures of where they study, from tattoo parlours to African trucks.

Why does the government think that vocational specialists – who haven't trained as an English or maths teacher – can teach these subjects in a college? "There's a feeling that if you can do it then you can teach it," says Helen Casey the director of the NRDC,

I Norge er det barn av ingeniører og naturvitere som kan mest som 15-åringer, viser tall fra PISA-undersøkelsen. Barn av renholdere kommer dårligst ut.

“The nonsubmitters are doing fine in terms of their graduation rates and GPAs, and significantly outperforming their standardized testing.”

At Sharpstein Elementary School, 2nd graders are getting used to a routine that most American children don't learn for four more years: Several times a day, they line up and switch classrooms and teachers by subject.