Data science can help apply math concepts to students' daily lives, making the subject applicable to STEM and other subjects, including public policy, social justice and health care, writes Pamela Burdman, executive director of the nonprofit Just Equations. Analyzing data teaches students how to think critically, Burdman writes in the commentary, and the results of…

One international school principal shares five guiding principles that can help fellow leaders in the current crisis.

The wellbeing and mental health of teachers in England is similar to those in other professions and teachers are less likely to report feelings of ‘low self-worth’, according to new research from academics at the UCL Institute of Education.

It's a myth that teachers have worse mental health and wellbeing compared with other professionals, study shows.

Mathilde er 14 år og går i 9. klasse på Fyn. Hun har altid haft det svært med matematik, og klokken kan hun kun aflæse på et digitalt ur. Hun er blevet testet for talblindhed på VUC Nyborg og deltager nu i et 10-ugers kursus i matematik for talblinde.

The psychologist, researcher, and MacArthur Fellow Angela Duckworth believes that to make better decisions in our school systems, we need to rethink the way we measure student capabilities.

Teachers can prioritize building relationships with students to support social-emotional learning, according to Marilee Sprenger, a veteran educator and international educational consultant. In this article, Sprenger shares how focusing on six SEL competencies can help teachers support students who have experienced trauma and stress in their lives.

Math, science and reading teachers can benefit from instructional coaching or teacher leaders, and research suggests such assistance may provide a better return on investment than other types of professional development. Academic specialists in Greenville County Schools in South Carolina have used multitiered support, monthly meetings and targeted coaching for teachers to help improve struggling…

Chronicling the school year in an online portfolio is a solo form of professional development for educators to track accomplishments and it allows for later reflection. Education consultant Monica Burns recommends that educators spend just a few minutes each week to document activities and resources used in class, photos taken and a few sentences of…

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project has released an approach to teaching reading. Under the approach - which calls for "rebalancing" literacy - greater emphasis is placed on teaching children to recognize spoken words before recognizing written words.

There are several available resources to help develop students' news literacy skills, writes Kimberly Rues, a prekindergarten-to-sixth-grade librarian in Missouri. In this commentary, Rues discusses the News Literacy Project and Stanford History Education Group Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum, which can help students think critically about the news they consume online.

In a Swiss experiment, women assigned to male-dominated study groups were more likely to drop an economics class.