Educators can take steps to make language lessons more accessible and inclusive for students with special needs, such as hearing or visual impairments, according to Andrea Mehringer, an English-language educator in Saudi Arabia. In this commentary, Mehringer shares how teachers can help bridge the gap, including the use of education technology.

Moving slowly when implementing changes can help education leaders boost the success of new initiatives, writes Miriam Plotinsky, a learning and achievement specialist with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. In this commentary, she offers guidance on how to methodically implement changes in the classroom, school and professional development.

There’s no need for funding or special training to bring these approaches and strategies into your classroom right away.

Thirty-nine percent of teachers need greater training to effectively use education technology, but administrators assert that tight budgets and competing priorities are preventing them from making such investments, according to a survey from Promethean. The survey also found that teachers want to use more technology in the classroom and expect the use of cloud-based lesson…

Pia Brännkärr är doktorand vid Finlands svenskspråkiga universitet, Åbo Akademi i Vasa. Pia arbetar parallellt som universitetslärare i textilslöjd vid Åbo Akademi och är sedan juni 2019 nyantagen doktorand i doktorandprogrammet i pedagogiska vetenskaper: slöjdvetenskap.

Childhood — and parenting — have radically changed in the past few decades, to the point where far more children today struggle to manage their behavior. That's the argument Katherine Reynolds Lewis makes in her new parenting book, The Good News About Bad Behavior.

Empathy is eroding, says Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki. The average American in 2009 was 30 percent less empathetic than their counterpart thirty years before. But there are ways to strengthen our empathy despite deep divisions in the world today.

What is Sustained Silent Reading, and how is it different from regular silent reading?

Neuroscience can suggest ways to keep students working toward their learning goals after their initial excitement wears off.

Teachers and parents have several ways to nurture literacy and lifelong reading among youths, even in today's digital culture of screens and smartphones, Liana Gamber-Thompson writes. Gamber-Thompson outlines seven tips, including modeling reading behavior and joining them in reading content they enjoy, such as graphic novels.