Elever, lärare och hela skolor mäts och betygsätts av en mängd olika aktörer. Det är dags att på allvar fundera över hur mycket, och vilket slags, utvärdering som faktiskt behövs, skriver forskaren Lena Lindgren.  

Ett tidningsurklipp, en kruka koriander och en påse rödlök. Verkligheten knackar på när det är NO-lektion med Helena Sagar. Det som började med en lust att väcka elevernas intresse ledde hela vägen till en doktorsavhandling.  

English teachers are developing their own lessons around computer programming for students as young as five as part of the new national curriculum. Current challenges include bringing teachers up to speed on how to teach the subject and increasing awareness among parents.

Kodaikanal International School in southern India is opening its new experiential learning centre to middle and high school students. The students will spend four months conducting environmental research at the outdoor campus while learning about farming, climate change and local flora and fauna.

Playing games, chatting with their friends, and browsing the internet are all likely suspects drawing your students’ attention away from whatever the task at hand happens to be, but just because students have access to technology doesn’t mean you have to transform into device police and forget about teaching.

The use of social media channels such as Twitter can help teachers and school leaders foster a more connected culture within a single school, social media expert and Edcamp organizer Elana Leoni writes in this blog post. Leoni shares several tips for connecting through Twitter, such as having teachers promote their Twitter handles in e-mail…

Skolan är i dag en institution som präglas av instabilitet, rättsosäkerhet och ojämlika förutsättningar. Ett skäl är att uppdraget är splittrat: Flera styrningsprinciper ska råda samtidigt, vilket ytterst drabbar eleverna. Det skriver professor Gunnar Berg.

Johanna Olsson är utvecklare och researchansvarig på Hyper Island, en skola utan lärare och läxor. Hon pratar om schabloner kring kreativitet: varför har vi dem? Hur går vi förbi dem?

"It's important, however, that principals make time to learn, share, and collaboratively lead to keep the school moving forward," writes ASCD author William Sterrett. In a recent Inservice post, Sterrett provides a sneak peek into his Conference on Educational Leadership session and shares helpful strategies and action steps that principals can implement into their day.

Students at a New Jersey high school not only have access to a physical library that encourages collaboration, but they also have access to a virtual library. In this blog post, educator and media specialist Laura Fleming shares how she reimagined the traditional library and expanded its reach beyond school walls.

The idea: Some previously unknown technology could, all by itself, catalyze a revolution in children’s learning, especially in the developing world.

Children seven and a half times less likely to succeed if father failed to achieve, with mother’s education a lesser factor.