Tyskland har anställt 8.500 lärare för att klara undervisningen av 196.000 flyktingbarn som börjat i tyska skolor i år.

60 students at Coventry University divide their time between lecture halls and Unipart’s nearby site, working on live projects.

Some schools are adopting formative, performance-based assessments and other changes as a result of a backlash against standardized testing. Changes include some states dropping graduation tests, while the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium intends to devote more time to interim exams.

Teacher-initiated interventions to engage families can make a big difference for students, writes Anne O'Brien, deputy director of the Learning First Alliance. In this blog post, she writes about the importance of home visits, academic meetings and continued contact throughout the school year.

Do you read books at lightning speed? Are you known for your magnetic personality? Have you appeared to be in two places at one time? All educators are heroes, but some just might be superheroes! Take this fun quiz to find out what your superhero persona may be, and get some great gift ideas from…

Every Tuesday SmartBrief on EdTech runs Tech Tips, a column featuring suggestions and recommendations from school technologists and tech-using educators. This month, we are running a roundup of the top tips from the year.

Studerende sparer mere op og har mindre gæld, viser analyse.

»Man bør derfor differentiere det offentliges tilskud til privatskolerne ved at indføre et socialt taxameter, der baserer sig på den enkelte skoles elevsammensætning.

‘Special classes’ have been created to help children who have fled war and poverty to catch up with their new peersGermany has recruited 8,500 people to teach child refugees German, as the country expects the number of new arrivals to soar past the million mark in 2015, Die Welt daily reported on Sunday.

Children as young as four already 'transitioning', says Susie Green, chair of Mermaids charity.

Parents generally look for features other than aesthetic ones at schools, but if you were going to choose on beauty alone, here are the best.

Shortages in key secondary subjects hit London and south-east hardest as house prices soar beyond salariesBritain’s leading expert on school recruitment has warned that a shortage of trainee teachers is reaching crisis levels in some of the most important subjects in the curriculum.