As more and more schools across the nation allow for online monitoring of student grades, parents are finding the advantages of having that access.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan declared Tuesday that traditional textbooks should become obsolete in the "next few years" and that schools should shift to digital textbooks. Advocates say that digital textbooks are less costly and give students better access to up-to-date resources.

A report recently released by Microsoft finds that high schools nationwide are not training enough students in computer science. The report found a 25% decline in five years in the number of private and public high schools offering the Advanced Placement exam in computer science.

While educators have found that social media allows them to quickly and effectively communicate, it also has drawn criticism from those who believe it is too difficult to regulate, blogger Charlie Osbourne writes in this post.

Teaching social literacy skills to students is a priority at Peak Preparatory, a Dallas-based charter school. Administrators say they have put emphasis on social skills for all grades, K-12, and apply certain standards to all social interaction.

Woodside High School in Newport News, Va., is among a growing list of schools around the nation encouraging more students to take Advanced Placement math and science courses.

Today is Banned Website Awareness Day , and all across the country, educators are doing their part to raise awareness of how overly restrictive blocking of educational websites affects student learning.

Google just announced that its Apps for Education suite is now being used by more than 20 million students, faculty members, and staff worldwide. The company made this announcement in a blog post celebrating the upcoming World Teacher' Day on October 5.

Foreldrene mine gjorde alt de kunne for å kjempe min sak. Svært lite ble gjort med mobbingen, og jeg merket ingenting i praksis.

A Georgia county looks to the world's second-largest economy to fix its education system

Mobile phones have become a "frequent and distracting influence" in Scotland's classrooms following a sharp increase in the number of children bringing them to school, an official report has concluded.

If students can only focus for 15-minute intervals, shouldn't we devote precious class time to something more engaging?