Following a report suggesting that smaller class sizes have not led to increased achievement in Victoria, Australia, the state's regulation reform body has proposed reversing the trend, freeing up money to be spent instead on staff training and incentive pay for good teachers.

Regular access to phones, computers and television may affect children's abilities to recognize human emotions, according to a study in the journal Computers in Human Behavior. Researchers reported that students with no access to electronic devices for five days were better able to read human emotions and nonverbal cues than their peers who had access…

Districts should tap teachers to help lead the professional development and collaboration needed to implement Common Core State Standards, educator Susan Carle writes in this blog post. She shares some of her experiences leading colleagues in common core workshops.

A Florida district has become the largest player in a national movement to teach chess in public schools by providing weekly lessons to all of its 34,000 second- and third-graders. "I was skeptical of it in the beginning," teacher Justine Maver said. "But you can put (chess) with anything, math, science - it really works."

Da elevene på yrkesfag fikk bruke Youtube på skolen, ble de mer motivert til å gjøre det bedre i engelsk.

A project called Computer Science Unplugged teaches students computer science lessons without technology, allowing students to get to the core of what the field is based on -- computational thinking. The lessons incorporate physical activity as well as real-life objects that students are familiar with.

Skollagen säger att det ska vara en likvärdig skola för alla. Men så är det inte idag, enligt pedagogikforskaren Ann-Christin Torpsten. Och de som missgynnas mest är elever som har svenska som andraspråk.

A leading independent school is making dozens of its courses available free online, so lessons can be downloaded by pupils or teachers at other schools.

It can be hard to keep up with evolving technology -- and the way it is used in education, Edutopia Assistant Editor Todd Finley writes in this blog post. To help teachers successfully integrate technology in the classroom, he recommends they take time each week to learn a tool and to interact with students using…

Schools are starting cycle- or walk-to-school schemes to nurture green thinking and encourage children to be healthy. Matthew Jenkin meets the teachers making a difference.

Dylan Wiliam, professor emeritus vid Institute of education vid University of London, har under lång tid forskat kring vad som utmärker framgångsrikt lärande och tagit fram en verktygslåda för arbete i klassrum. Han ifrågasätter bland annat handuppräckning som svarsmodell och vill istället utveckla en klassrumskultur där samtliga elever deltar i samtal (webb-tv).

I slutet av augusti presenterades utvärderingar från två pågående projekt med varsin surfplatta, ett i småländska Gislaved och ett i danska Odder. I båda projekten vänder man sig till grundskolan, från förskoleklass till och med nian, och de omfattar samtliga kommunala skolor.