Concerned that students are relying too much on calculators, rather than learning basic but important math skills, a Virginia lawmaker has proposed legislation that would prohibit some students from using the devices on their end-of-year math exams. The proposal comes in light of a teacher saying his ninth-grade students struggled to complete basic operations on…

Vi er overhovedet ikke blevet inddraget i regeringens planer om en reform af folkeskolen, siger lærerformand.

Field trips to museums, historic sites and other traditional landmarks are occurring virtually these days, as schools rely more on online broadcasts and interactive programs because of budgets cuts and tight testing schedules.

Decades of change in education, and still the new chief inspector is not happy.

A high-school teacher in Iowa has adopted a hands-on teaching technique in her biology and human physiology classes in which students complete "quests," rather than homework assignments. Instead of setting deadlines for assignments, students are given quests that they must work on until they get 100%, with papers containing errors returned for corrections.

The number of teachers who quit their jobs in English state schools rose by almost a fifth in one year, according to government figures.

Teachers must be coachable in order to reach their full potential, writes instructional coach David Ginsburg. In this blog post, he writes that a primary indicator of coachability is how teachers react when they are struggling. Coachable teachers, as he demonstrates by using two videos, will take ownership of their weaknesses rather than blaming issues…

Some schools in Detroit are installing more analog clocks -- rather than digital clocks -- to help teach students to tell time the old-fashioned way. Such concepts, educators say, are important to help students learn to understand time and also develop math skills.

I en artikel i the Huffington Post beskriver Colm Mulcahy hur de viktigaste matematiska principerna bakom datorspelsgrafik egentligen är en slags avancerad version av hur man kan beskriva förhållanden vid saftblandning.    

Teacher and 'super marker' Sarah Findlater shares her tips for time-saving and good-quality marking.

Skoleledernes formand tvivler på, at en milliard kroner er nok til lærernes efteruddannelse.

Extrem fattigdom, orättvisor och matbrist – men också stor gästfrihet, vänlighet och värme. Gymnasiestudenterna Ida Suni och Hilda Gustavsson i Åmål hann uppleva allt när de besökte Malawi för sitt projektarbete.