Playtime, downtime and family time are so essential to a child's healthy development. But with competing demands from school, extracurricular activities and anxiety, getting downtime might be hard to come by.

AI-powered grammar tools from Google and others make sentence-parsing a thing of the past. Parents and teachers wonder if kids will suffer.

New research shows that extra-curricular activities do more to help close the attainment gap between richer and poorer pupils than nebulous lessons in 'character.

The support instructional coaches give to first-year educators must meet their needs and skill sets, wherever they are in the learning process.

A student-teacher co-leadership approach can help support a positive, self-sustaining school culture, writes Joseph Carter, Camelot Education's superintendent of schools. In this blog post, he shares how student leaders are identified and how they reinforce school-based norms.

Teachers can help students change their behavior by teaching them to manage their emotions, according to educational psychologist Lori Jackson and special educator Steve Peck. In this blog post, they suggest teachers start the process by allowing students to share their emotions anonymously and by sharing details about their own emotions.

An educator and entrepreneur believes he's found an untapped resource to help more struggling students succeed in reading. The secret? Families.

High school math teacher Sandra Cover developed a new approach to assessment when she realized her students were learning the "what" of math, but not the "how" or "why."

A few typical stumbling blocks are inevitable for new teachers. A veteran educator provides a road map to overcome them.

A primary school teacher in Scotland creates video blogs to share tips and lesson plans with fellow educators. His most popular video detailed a poem he wrote encouraging teachers to reconsider zero-tolerance approaches to bad behavior and classroom disciplin

Students continue to find new, and increasingly advanced, ways to plagiarize assignments and to cheat on exams using technology. Among the newer trends is the use of auto-summarize features in Word and other programs to generate essays that are passed off as students' own work.

How can I find the support my child with special needs requires at school? To answer that question, and more, many parents look to online forums where parents share advice.