Offering exaggerated praise to a child who has learning difficulties does not increase his or her motivation. False compliments can often be counterproductive, says Norwegian professor Terje Manger.

A government minister says gender-specific toys harm girls' career opportunities. But how much do the toys children play with shape their future prospects in the job market?

When did teaching stop being about exciting lessons and giving meaningful feedback, and just become an endless stream of box-ticking and paperwork?

Because students spend nearly all of their time studying, they have little opportunity to be creative or discover their own passions.

A fun story about a public elementary school in South Carolina where every student is an engineer. There’s plenty of robotics and science, definitely some art — but no handwriting instruction. Is this the future?

From Jackie Gerstein’s resource-rich site comes this sweet infographic depicting the skills we’d like to instill in our students.

It’s an open secret in the education community. As we go about integrating technology into our schools, we are increasing the risk and potential for plagiarism in our tradition-minded classrooms.

Innovation and the current classroom model most often operate as antagonists. The system is evolving, but not quickly enough to get young people ready for the new world. But there are a number of ways that teachers can bypass the system and offer students the tools and experiences that spur an innovative mindset.

Sedan Ängsdals skola i Skåne gav sina högstadieelever datorer har resultaten gått stadigt uppåt. En viktig del är att elever med särskilda behov får bättre stöd för att delta i klassrummet.

Varje tisdag samlas alla mattelärare i Korsavadsskolan i Ystad för att förkovra sig inom sitt ämne. Tillsammans ska de lyfta matematikunder- visningen till nya nivåer. På skolan inreds också en matteverkstad.

Children from poor backgrounds must do even better in key academic subjects to get on in life, researchers have said.

As long as I’ve been teaching, I’ve held the view that homework makes a massive difference to the learning process.