A high school in Cardiff is dedicating half the timetable to tackling poor literacy and numeracy in a bid to drive up standards for its youngest pupils.

Fewer children are reading in their spare time because of the "embarrassment" of carrying books in front of friends, according research.

Children are reading less as their lives become more crowded with other activities, new research suggests.

Taking lessons outside gives students and teachers time to interact, explore and reflect on their learning.

Finland’s Pasi Sahlberg is one of the world’s leading experts on school reform and the author of the best-selling “Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn About Educational Change in Finland?” He also write a provocative post for this blog on what the United States can’t learn from Finland when it comes to school reform.

Being an openly homosexual high school teacher has been trying -- and often painful.

En norsk 29-årig lärare har dömts till sex månaders fängelse för att hon haft sexuellt umgänge med sin 16-årige elev i fjol. Vid rättegången i Sarpsborg i sydöstra Norge sade pojken att han kände sig pressad till handlingen.

In this blog post, high-school English teacher Nicholas Provenzano writes that technology has changed what it means to be literate in today's society.

A school in California has completed construction on its new multimedia iLab, built to support the school's one-to-one iPad initiative. The computer lab, which includes whiteboards, green screens, a sound-booth and other features, is intended to provide a flexible and technology-driven learning space for students.

The online educational tool Learnist is likely to become more popular among teachers, Jessica Van Sack suggests in this opinion piece.

Many educators struggle mightily to grasp how technology can be utilized in ways that actually help students learn. In a larger sense, it's tough to implement promising new techniques and ideas in a system that remains stubbornly old school; where kids still lug around massive dog-eared textbooks and daydream during long-winded lectures.