Students at Walnut High School in Walnut, Calif., are putting creativity and lessons learned about civics, economics and urban design to work in a project in which they create "Atlantis," a new world complete with a constitution, monetary system and even its own flag.

A recent study found that taking daily physical-education courses in school, taking physical activity breaks in the classroom and encouraging students to bike and walk to school would benefit students.

Teachers can adopt six entrepreneurial skills to become more effective, educator Katrina Stevens writes in this blog post.

Karin Enskär från forskargruppen Child vid Högskolan i Jönköping har fått stipendium för att delta i programmet "Excellence in Teaching" på National University of Singapore. Stiftelsen för internationalisering av högre utbildning och forskning, STINT, som står bakom stipendiet vill ge svenska högskolelärare internationella erfaren­heter med utgångspunkt i lärar­rollen.

The common thread that runs through all of Kathy Schrock's work is her mission to help teachers keep up with the latest technology. Whether she is writing, speaking, blogging, or tweeting, her goal is to show educators where and how to find tech tools that will engage their students.

Nearly seven years after first opening its doors, the Science Leadership Academy public charter high school in Philadelphia and its inquiry-based approach to learning have become a national model for the kinds of reforms educators strive towards.

The Guardian Teacher Network has resources to help you jazz up your maths lessons.

More schools nationwide are adopting the flipped instructional model -- a trend driven by success stories and a tech-savvy generation of students, according to data from the Flipped Learning Network.

If it’s true that 97 percent of teens in the U.S. are playing digital games, then the focus on how games can fit into the shifting education system becomes that much more important.

Computer games add challenges and a competitive element to school teaching and that can improve the learning experience for the pupils, provided that the teachers join in the fun.

EU-kommissionen har utsett två flaggskeppsprojekt inom teknologisk forskning och flera svenska universitet och högskolor får ta del av EU:s forskningsmiljarder. Chalmers tekniska högskola blir koordinator för ett av flaggskeppen, Graphene, och Karolinska Institutet får en framträdande roll i det andra, Humain Brain Project.

Enligt skollagen ska all utbildning vila på vetenskaplig grund och beprövad erfarenhet. Som stöd för skolornas utveckling startar Skolverket en utvecklingsinsats kring begreppen "vetenskaplig grund", "beprövad erfarenhet" och ”evidens”.