A physics and chemistry teacher in California uses her passion for music to help her students learn complicated science and math lessons. Maureen Rymer, who plays the guitar, recorder and piano, often makes up songs and writes lyrics when her class is struggling with a topic, including a recent tune about grams and division.

A new nonprofit group is working with school districts to provide access to iPad tablet computers to students with autism spectrum disorders.

Richard Rose, who has two decades of experience in online teaching, offers six tips to help virtual educators be successful. He writes that online teachers should not expect constant validation, get to know their students and understand that complete control is unrealistic in a virtual environment.

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Flipped classrooms use technology—online video instruction, laptops, DVDs of lessons—to reverse what students have traditionally done in class and at home to learn. Listening to lectures becomes the homework assignment so teachers can provide more one-on-one attention in class and students can work at their own pace or with other students.

Schools in New Jersey and elsewhere are decreasing the amount of time spent teaching students to write in cursive. The trend is driven by the national Common Core State Standards, which does not require penmanship instruction, and by technology, which some say has decreased the need for students to learn cursive.

When Justin Minkel, a teacher at Jones Elementary, a school in northwest Arkansas that serves a predominantly low-income Latino population, realized that his students didn't have books at home, he decided to do something about it.

Some students in western Pennsylvania this year participated in a Fantasy Baseball Integrated Math Program that was introduced to area schools and Boys and Girls Clubs by Pittsburgh Pirates Charities. The students played simulated baseball games to learn math concepts including fractions, decimal and percent equivalence, measurement and geometry, number sense and graphing, ending the…

För sex veckor sedan började nioåriga Martha Payne från Argyll i Skottland att fotografera sin tråkiga skollunch och lägga ut bilderna på sin blogg. Det var så många som hittade till Marthas blogg att skolledningen surnade till, och Martha förbjöds att fortsätta.

Technology can be a powerful tool for helping close the communication gap between parents and schools. But for low-income, immigrant parents of school-age kids, just having access to the internet might not be enough.

Google and 3M give their employees sizeable chunks of time to work on their own projects with intriguing results... could the same idea work in schools? Yes says Matthew Bebbington and here's how.

A student's perception of the educators in his life is his reality, and it's this reality that really matters, explains Whole Child Programs director Sean Slade. Slade explains how to reach students flying under the radar and shares two examples of educators who built powerful connections with learners in their schools.