“Students are rarely asked to solve a problem they are not thoroughly familiar with,” Carol Lloyd writes. “Instead, they come to think of math as a series of rules to be memorized. The trouble is kids don’t necessarily learn how to attack a new or different kind of equation.”

Politikernas beslut om att ej delta i Pisa-test möter kritik. Viktigt vetande går förlorad menar bekymrade forskare.

Trist att inte veta vad pengarna från Operation Dagsverke går till, tänkte lärare och elever på Aspuddens skola i Stockholm och beslutade sig för att starta en egen insamling. Det blev upptakten till »Solidaritetsdagarna« som 2006 ledde till byggandet av en vänskola i Uganda.  

Parents are sometime overzealous in keeping their child off sick and should send them to school if they have the sniffles, the Government's behaviour tsar said today.

Gymnasielærerne bruger mindre end en femtedel af deres arbejdstid på at undervise eleverne, viser en ny undersøgelse.

Hver dag blir 60 barn skadet i norske barnehager. En ferskundersøkelse avdekker at en stor andel barnehageansattemangler grunnleggende sikkerhetsopplæring.

Finland is internationally recognised as a leader in education, but other countries have found its success difficult replicate.

Computer-driven classes are now spreading fast across the country to help bottom students catch up. And, increasingly, it’s not just for the weakest readers, but for all kids, in all subjects and in all grades.

A school in Canada is using school-issued cellphones to allow students and teachers to communicate in and out of the classroom.

Students, who might otherwise be excluded from schools in England due to behavioural or other problems, are enrolling in mainstream education through a new initiative.

The executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, of Google writes in this opinion piece that the company endorses a push to teach coding in Britain's classrooms.

Studying a foreign language should be compulsory until the age of 16 if Britain is to become a nation of exporters, a business group has warned.