Sixth-grade math teacher Stephanie Britton from Franklin County, Ky., strives to make the subject interesting for her students by explaining it in terms of real-world applications. She's created lessons about the football season and has even used toilet paper in examples.

The coronavirus pandemic threatens to worsen equity gaps in education, according to Ryan Reyna, senior director of Education Strategy Group. In this commentary, Reyna shares findings of a new report from the organization and suggestions to help reverse that trajectory, such as a focus on ninth-grade GPA and encouraging completion of the Free Application for…

Here’s how school and IT leaders can help parents and guardians navigating online platforms and digital tools with their children this year.

Approaches to taking classes outside to prevent the spread of COVID-19 can vary depending on a variety of factors, including location and resources.

How can I teach music if the kids aren’t allowed to sing indoors? How will lag time affect group singing online? How will I make students feel seen and heard via Zoom? Those were some of the questions that elementary music teacher Angela Carpenter spent her summer trying to figure out.

Drawing on their panel discussion at an assessment conference, grading experts Susan Brookhart, Thomas Guskey, Jay McTighe, and Dylan Wiliam, share eight principles that will help grading be part of a balanced assessment system. Read more in Educational Leadership.

Young people are experts in their own lives, writes Nicole Williams Beechum. Start treating them that way.

Teacher and student voices: challenges, opportunities and dilemmas. (pdf)

A comparative analysis of educational outcomes among refugee children in the Nordic countries. (pdf)

Børn med flygtningebaggrund, der ankommer til nordiske lande i den sene skolealder, klarer sig dårligere i skolen i Danmark, end de gør i Sverige. Det viser en ny videnskabelig undersøgelse fra det nordiske CAGE projekt med deltagelse af forskere fra Københavns Universitet.

Math anxiety is real for kids and adults. But parents can help. The solution goes beyond equations and textbooks.  

Vetenskapen kan vässa läraren – men det är läraren som är experten och vet vad som funkar i klass­rummet. Det säger Jared Cooney Horvath, som lämnade lärar­yrket för att fördjupa sig i neurovetenskap.