The type of classroom needed to a deliver a 21st-century education will not come cheap. As schools look to provide technology, such as iPads and interactive whiteboards, and consider the cost to maintain their infrastructure, schools are having to get creative to provide necessary resources under tight budgets.

As the gaming in education continues to grow, one of the foremost experts in the field, Constance Steinkuehler, makes the case for why it’s important to pay attention to what works in gaming and how it could be applied to learning.

The textbook -- either in hard copy or digital form -- no longer is necessary because of resources readily available online in the public domain, offers Colette Marie Bennett, the English department chair in her Connecticut district.

Indiska barn har fått rätt till gratis grundskola. Men landets nya skollag sänker utbildningens kvalitet, enligt kritiker. Barn i femte klass kan varken läsa eller räkna, visar en studie om Indiens skolbarn.

Special educator Janet Dunn, headteacher at a school for students with special needs in the United Kingdom, writes in this blog post about a programme in which teachers at traditional schools receive training from special educators and students with and without language, communication and speech disabilities are paired for weekly lessons.

In the past year there's been a real boom in online education platforms, but what sets these models apart from the average lecture-on-demand model? According to Stanford professor Daphne Koller, whose startup Coursera launched in February and has 640,000 students from 190 countries, if they really want to reach the masses, online learning platforms have…

In West Australia, Year 12 students are being advised to stop using social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, following research showing that such sites are associated with diminished academic achievement.

More schools in the United Kingdom have adopted "values-based education," which emphasises respect, courage, honesty, compassion and integrity. The teaching method differs from the competitive, test-driven approach taken at other schools, educators say.

Över 1 400 elever som bor utomlands med sina vårdnadshavare fick undervisning i en svensk utlandsskola under läsåret 2011/12. Reguljär undervisning bedrivs i 19 skolor fördelat på 12 länder. Det visar en ny rapport från Skolverket.

This year has seen increasingly noisy calls for revolution in Information Communications Technology (ICT) education, from Google's Eric Schmidt to Ian Livingstone - president of video game publisher Eidos - people have been stating the bleeding obvious: Our children need to learn how to build and design digital technologies, and not be passive users.

Inspired by the optimism of school leaders in Chile, Kathryn Riley is gathering thoughts of hope about the future of education. What do you want from your leaders? And what is the place of school in the lives of young people?

Over the past few years teachers have borne the brunt of the blame for the challenges facing the nation's public schools. But in a scathing op-ed in Salt Lake City's Deseret News, Teresa Talbot, claims "the main problem with our education system today is not what is taught, where it is taught, by whom it…