In order to help ease the transition into ninth grade, South Bronx Community Charter has developed a summer program that focuses on helping students bond with one another. That relationship-building work helped students better resolve conflicts and feel a sense of belonging once school started.

Schools need to create environments that speak to - rather than resist or suppress - teenagers' neurological development, says noted psychologist and educator Thomas Armstrong in this conversation with editor-in-chief Anthony Rebora.

Kareem Farah, a high-school math teacher, redesigned his instructional model to better serve students' diverse needs. Farah describes the model, which replaces lectures with teacher-led instructional videos.

A new, interactive national report called the STEM Opportunity Index - developed by the National Math and Science Initiative, SRI International and 100Kin10 - compares how states are supporting STEM education based on 10 indicators. NMSI CEO Bernard Harris says the goal is for states to use the data to improve STEM education.

Playing a cooperative role-playing game like Dungeons & Dragons can have the added benefit of helping kids develop social emotional skills.

School playtime is becoming a thing of the past for a generation of children, a new report has found.

Programledarna fortsätter att undersöka utbildningssystemet i Finland, denna gång gymnasiet och yrkesskolan. Gymnasiet lär ut teoretiska ämnen och förbereder för universitetet.

College and university IT leaders can use automatic alert systems and cameras linked to the campus IP network to bolster campus security, writes Dave Doucette with CDW•G. In this blog post, he writes that some institutions also have created mobile apps that students can use to report emergencies and receive security notifications from administrators.

About 95% of teachers use technology in the classroom -- especially video streaming services such as YouTube, and productivity and presentation tools, such as Microsoft Office, according to a survey by Common Sense Education. Data shows that some of the tools that teachers rated as most effective, such as those involving health and well-being, were…

Instead of relying on worksheets, teachers need to create activities that provide students creative and multiple ways to solve math problems and foster discussions about methods, writes Santa Clara University assistant professor Kathy Liu Sun.

More colleges and universities are using technology to keep students from "contract cheating" and plagiarism.

Tech-savvy foreign-language educators and coaches are often surprised to hear how many colleagues are hesitant to use tech tools in their foreign-language teaching. Teachers lament that they don't have experience using these tools, worry that things may go wrong, or that they do not really know where to begin.