School districts big and small across the country have rushed to start using digital course materials, purchasing thousands of tablet computers along the way. Advocates argue these expenditures ultimately save money by eliminating paper textbooks and making the classroom more efficient.

Multiple-choice exams could be a thing of the past as test-makers develop new, technology-based assessments.

Students studying to be teachers at the middle and high school levels at the University of Massachusetts, USA, are protesting a new national licensure procedure being developed by Stanford University with the education company Pearson.

Sixty-seven of the 68 students studying to be teachers at the middle and high school levels at the Amherst campus are protesting a new national licensure procedure being developed by Stanford University with the education company Pearson.

Med en økonomisk 2020-plan vil regeringen sikre unge mere og bedre uddannelse. Regeringen vil blandt andet sætte fokus på regler, der ”hindrer en fleksibel anvendelse og tilrettelæggelse af arbejdstiden, for eksempel uhensigtsmæssige arbejdstidsregler”.

Several months ago we described how PISA results show that, when it comes to the question of private versus public schooling, it’s the students who make the school. Both private schools and public schools with student populations from socio-economically advantaged backgrounds benefit the individual students who attend them. But PISA results also showed that there…

Två högstadielärare från Mariefredsskolan gjorde nyligen en annorlunda studieresa. Christian Eriksson och Petri Matalamaa besökte det latinamerikanska landet Guatemala.

Teachers who use games like Angry Birds and World of Warcraft in the classroom are becoming less of a rarity. According to a survey by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit that studies how children learn through digital media, an increasing number of teachers believe gaming is "becoming a consistent and…

A charter school network in New York City is working to improve students' reading scores through a challenge in which students read 1.2 million words.

Halvdelen af de danske gymnasielærere bruger mere tid på forberedelse, end der er sat af, viser ny undersøgelse. Men at være velforberedt lægger også et stort arbejdspres på den enkelte lærer, og det kan få alvorlige konsekvenser.

A recent survey shows that about 75% of teachers in England support a proposal to pay teachers based in part on how students perform on standardized tests.

In Israel, some teaching assistants in nursery school classrooms participated in training intended to help them address gender stereotypes.