A new application for young people is a Norwegian maths app called DragonBox. The app, produced by WeWantToKnow AS, is the first in a series and focuses on algebra. Future releases will cover geometry and elementary maths skills. About 100 U.S. schools are looking to use the game as part of their maths curricula.

A recent survey of parents in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, finds that students are spending less than two hours studying each night -- opting instead to spend time on social-networking websites. Zakieh Ali Al Disi of the Al Ain Education Office conducted a separate study that found that nearly one-third of students reported their…

Skype in the Classroom has grown since its 2011 launch to include 43,000 teachers and 2,400 suggested lesson plans that include the use of the free, Internet video-chatting program.

Advocates in New Zealand are urging the government to provide training for teachers, administrators and others in addressing bullying, particularly cyberbullying. NetSafe Chief Technology Officer Sean Lyons recommends that anti-bullying training be required for school staff, and that at least one staff member be focused on cyberbullying.

A good rule of thumb for any classroom use of cellphones: the lesson/activity must be engaging as well as productive.

Some schools are taking steps to address the problem of overscheduled students by setting homework-free days, teaching relaxation techniques in physical-education classes, among other efforts.

There are several steps that teachers can take to quickly improve their teaching, writes author and speaker Annette Breaux. In this blog post, she writes that teachers should greet students each morning and say goodbye to them when they leave to help develop a positive classroom environment.

Under stark bevakning återvände två pakistanska flickor, som skottskadades när aktivisten Malala Yousafzai sköts av talibaner i oktober, till skolan på torsdagen.

Danska grundskolebarn ska få längre skoldagar. Totalt vill regeringen öka skoltiden från klasserna 0 till 9 så att det motsvarar tre års extra skolgång jämfört med i dag, erfar Jyllands-Posten.

Finland’sPasi Sahlberg, an international leader in education reform, has won a $100,000 education prize from the University of Louisville for his worldwide best-selling book that explains how Finnish schools were reformed to become among the best in the world.

Dödshot och utpressning hör till vardagen för Colombias lärare. I fjol mördades 27 lärare i landet och många tvingas flytta av rädsla att bli en av dem.

Ansvariga för skolan i Lessebo kommun måste vidta kraftfulla åtgärder för att förbättra kunskapsresultaten och ge alla elever möjlighet att nå så långt som möjligt i sin kunskapsutveckling. Det konstaterar Skolinspektionen.