It started with a simple observation: Students need their teachers present to answer questions or to provide help if they get stuck on an assignment. From there, authors Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams began the flipped classroom.

En högstadieelev i USA har uppfunnit ett revolutionerande cancertest. Han gjorde det genom att googla sig till kunskap.

National pay rates for teachers should be scrapped because they damage school performance and depress pupils' GCSE results, according to academics.

I Finland är begreppet "övningsskola" nästan lika välkänt som bastu och tango. Här ges blivande lärare koncentrerad handledning och socialiseras metodiskt in i yrket. - Vår styrka är integrationen mellan teori och praktik samt närheten till forskningen, fastslår Gun Jakobsson, ledande rektor vid världens enda svenskspråkiga övningsskola.

En række forsøg i børnehaver, skoler og gymnasier skal i næste skoleår vise, hvordan kolbøtter kan give bedre læsefærdigheder. Det er der ikke meget af i folkeskolen, hvor det meste er røv-til-bænk-undervisning, siger skoleledernes formand.

While the majority of those who responded to an online survey say they favor letting high-school students use cellphones, laptops and tablets in school, respondents reported favoring restraint in how students could use the devices.

In this blog post, sixth-grade teacher Bill Ferriter writes about a failed experiment in which he tried to start a classroom blog. The blog never took off, he writes, because technology alone does not motivate students. Instead, students are motivated by issues, opportunities to be social, people in their lives and challenges they face.

Virtually every discussion of 21st-century learning puts innovation and its close cousin, creativity, atop the list of skills students must have for the future.

What does it take to ensure the successful rollout of a one-to-one iPad program? In this blog post, Jac de Haan, technology integration specialist, outlines step-by-step what a successful two-month rollout should look like.

English teacher Randy Turner remembers Stephanie Taylor, a student who was in one of his early sixth-grade creative-writing classes and who, this year, will be teaching her own class for the first time. In this blog post, he offers advice for her and other first-year teachers.

Educators can make a difference by developing a long-term vision for their school and a plan for achieving it, education activist Sam Chaltain writes in this blog post.

For the students out there, the closing of summer means a change of scenery, from beach and bonfires to classrooms and textbooks. To ready yourself into study mode, we're highlighting six tech products to bring out the A student in you.