The education reform movement that started with George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law is dead. It died because every strategy it imposed on the nation’s schools has failed, writes Diane Ravitch, a research professor of education at New York University and the author of eleven books.

Researchers found that children who slept for less than seven hours had a 53% higher total behavior problem score on average and 7.8% lower total cognitive score on average, compared with those who slept for nine to 11 hours. The findings in Molecular Psychiatry were based on data involving more than 11,000 youths.

Within our society's growing culture of "busyness," schools have an important counter role to play. One critical antidote to this epidemic of overload is to reorient reading instruction to cultivate intentionally present, mindful readers. Learn five ways to foster immersive reading through daily classroom practice in Educational Leadership.

Educators should reimagine what a safe school is to make schools safer, writes Jim Dillon, an educational consultant. In this blog post, he offers several research-backed recommendations that focus on making schools a welcoming and supportive environment for students.

School districts across the country have launched tip lines to allow students to anonymously report information about potential school attacks via phone, websites and apps, but some districts are receiving more tips about possible teen suicides. In Oregon, a state police-run school safety tip line has received 540 reports of a student who is suicidal…

Number of pupils with autism spectrum disorders in mainstream public schools is up from 2,050 in 2010 to 8,710 in 2018. One programme is helping teachers, carers and students to adapt.

What clicker training means for how we learn.

There should be greater focus on teacher wellbeing in schools, according to Tara Porter, a clinical psychologist in the NHS and private practice. In this commentary, she suggests the potential value of reflective practice groups to help curb teachers' work stress.

Scholars in the field of conflict resolution in schools theoretically argued that minor distractions and disturbances are conflicts. In the present study, we refer to them as emerging conflicts. The study has been carried out within the phenomenographic research tradition and used semi-structured interviews. (pdf)

The aims of the study were to map and identify the foundation of relevant knowledge production in the field of approaches to address conflicts in schools and provide an empirical overview of its interdisciplinary roots, influential authors, intellectual boundaries, complexity, core theories, key methodologies, and disputed aspects. (pdf)

Det kræver tydelig ledelse, hvis en arbejdsplads skal nedbringe volds- og trusselsniveauet, viser ny forskning, som også inddrager specialskoler. Ledelsen skal sørge for, at medarbejderne både har en fælles forståelse af problemet, og af hvordan de skal håndtere det.

Brains affected by autism appear to share a problem with cells that make myelin, the insulating coating surrounding nerve fibers that controls the speed at which the fibers convey electrical signals.