After visiting 30 schools and interviewing 300 people, authors Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine have narrowed in on important qualities teachers and schools cultivate that engage students to learn.

Few high-school seniors report that they are reading for pleasure, writes Kimberly Rues, a school librarian in Missouri. Rues offers several strategies to help reverse this trend, including having students select books to read.

Taking high-school courses online may help students graduate, but it may not help them learn, according to a study of students at 18 Milwaukee schools. The Milwaukee district operates the courses through a partnership with Edgenuity.

A forecast from KnowledgeWorks outlines five key drivers expected to change the future of teaching and learning. These include automating choices, new approaches to civic engagement, and the influence of technology and neuroscience.

Four elements help students develop intrinsic motivation for learning: choice, challenge, autonomy and collaboration.

Kids have constant discussions about what's fair and right. Ethics education can help make youths have a framework for deepening one's understanding of the issues and developing empathy for other perspectives.

En grupp medlemmar från den svenska Vetenskapsakademin reser till Ungern efter sommaren för att studera vad som händer med den akademiska friheten där.

The middle school winners of the NPR Student Podcast Challenge offer their perspective on why talking about something so natural is so taboo — and why that's silly.

Exercising not only helps the body but it helps the brain. Schools are incorporating movement into the school day with activities like "The Daily Mile" to get kids active and prepared to learn.

Barn med specialbehov inkluderas allt oftare i allmänundervisningen i Finland och det har fått kritik på lärarhåll. Lärarna Pernilla Lindström och Marikki Arnkil ger tummen upp så länge smågruppsarbete också är möjligt.

Around 15% of girls begin menstruation by age 7. The challenges of puberty can rock anybody, but being the first of your friends to go through it can be especially stressful. Good parenting helps.

Children are under increasing pressure. Investing in their mental wellbeing could could help them now and in the future.