A government minister says gender-specific toys harm girls' career opportunities. But how much do the toys children play with shape their future prospects in the job market?

A fun story about a public elementary school in South Carolina where every student is an engineer. There’s plenty of robotics and science, definitely some art — but no handwriting instruction. Is this the future?

From Jackie Gerstein’s resource-rich site comes this sweet infographic depicting the skills we’d like to instill in our students.

It’s an open secret in the education community. As we go about integrating technology into our schools, we are increasing the risk and potential for plagiarism in our tradition-minded classrooms.

Innovation and the current classroom model most often operate as antagonists. The system is evolving, but not quickly enough to get young people ready for the new world. But there are a number of ways that teachers can bypass the system and offer students the tools and experiences that spur an innovative mindset.

Children from poor backgrounds must do even better in key academic subjects to get on in life, researchers have said.

As long as I’ve been teaching, I’ve held the view that homework makes a massive difference to the learning process.

As media becomes more prevalent in kids’ lives, parents are grappling with the potential benefits and pitfalls of screen time — what’s just the right amount, what’s truly educational, what’s beneficial, and what’s detrimental.

The percentage of students receiving music education has been in decline for decades. The Harmony Project, a music program for inner-city kids in Los Angeles partners with a neurobiologist to study the impact of music training on the learning skills of poor children.

Lärarna Inga Seidlitz och Katarina Bergman granskar en skola i sin grannkommun. Till skillnad från Skolinspektionen har de fokus på undervisningen.

Tekniken har ett språk. Det kallas kod. Och vi anser att det är otroligt viktigt att kunna koda. När du lär dig koda lär du dig också att lösa problem och samarbeta på kreativa sätt. Och det hjälper dig att bygga appar som förverkligar dina idéer. Vi tycker att alla ska ha möjlighet att skapa något…

Public Science Project has been successful at enlisting the help of young people and motivating them to engage in highly academic work in large part because they value what those youth bring to the table.