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.

Google has unveiled "transformation reports" to give educators data on how often various Google offerings are actually used and for which specific tasks. This is important because a study last year by BrightBytes found the majority of software licenses purchased by schools went unused and another study by LearnTrials revealed just 9% of education-technology tools…

A three-step plan for using surveys to gauge students’ interests as a basis for forming small reading discussion groups.

Two years ago, we set out to better understand how technology coaching could move us closer to bridging the digital use divide in the classroom. The Dynamic Learning Project is a classroom-based coaching program in which participating teachers are coached to use technology to support student engagement and promote the development of agency, as well as skills…

A teacher works to see the upsides in students’ learning difficulties—and uses them to help all students succeed.

Hotter temperatures affect students' ability to learn, according to an analysis by R. Jisung Park, an environmental and labor economist at UCLA's department of Public Policy and the Luskin Center for Innovation. Data shows, however, that snow days did not affect learning.

This PhD dissertation is an inquiry into the darkness of being a university student. Through a series of evocative vignettes, aesthetic expressions and philosophical speculations, Janus Aaen explore the murky nooks and corners of students’ lives based on an ethnographic fieldwork at Aarhus University. (pdf)

Elever med autisme har typisk svært ved at etablere sociale relationer, men skak giver dem noget at være fælles om, oplever Lene Bitsch Bierbaum fra Louiseskolen i Haderslev. Speciallæreren deltager i Skoleskak for Alle og har flere elever, som er blomstret op.