A good rule of thumb for any classroom use of cellphones: the lesson/activity must be engaging as well as productive.

Some schools are taking steps to address the problem of overscheduled students by setting homework-free days, teaching relaxation techniques in physical-education classes, among other efforts.

There are several steps that teachers can take to quickly improve their teaching, writes author and speaker Annette Breaux. In this blog post, she writes that teachers should greet students each morning and say goodbye to them when they leave to help develop a positive classroom environment.

Under stark bevakning återvände två pakistanska flickor, som skottskadades när aktivisten Malala Yousafzai sköts av talibaner i oktober, till skolan på torsdagen.

Danska grundskolebarn ska få längre skoldagar. Totalt vill regeringen öka skoltiden från klasserna 0 till 9 så att det motsvarar tre års extra skolgång jämfört med i dag, erfar Jyllands-Posten.

Finland’sPasi Sahlberg, an international leader in education reform, has won a $100,000 education prize from the University of Louisville for his worldwide best-selling book that explains how Finnish schools were reformed to become among the best in the world.

Dödshot och utpressning hör till vardagen för Colombias lärare. I fjol mördades 27 lärare i landet och många tvingas flytta av rädsla att bli en av dem.

Ansvariga för skolan i Lessebo kommun måste vidta kraftfulla åtgärder för att förbättra kunskapsresultaten och ge alla elever möjlighet att nå så långt som möjligt i sin kunskapsutveckling. Det konstaterar Skolinspektionen.

I en ny undersøkelse av utdanningssystemene i 39 land kommer Norge nok en gang dårlig ut. Norge havner på 26. plass og er dårligst i Skandinavia.

The UK's education system is ranked sixth best in the developed world, according to a global league table published by education firm Pearson.

Educators at a school in Vancouver, British Columbia, that enrols primarily low-income students say they are hopeful the addition of an interactive whiteboard will help boost student achievement. Already teachers are using the technology to make instruction interactive and to include videos and photos in classroom lessons. "I've been teaching for 30 years and I…

The craving for uniformity in public services has become a frenzy, but Michael Gove cannot run every classroom.