Students who love video games and are searching for a place to compete in esports may find that next new arena in a surprising place: public libraries. Libraries have long provided go-to spaces for K12 and higher-ed students who want to embrace traditional learning off campus — reading, researching and writing. But as technology develops, […]
As young people protest to force the world's governments to take more aggressive action on climate change, American students are also urging teachers to offer comprehensive instruction on environmental challenges.
A lead partner in New York City's ambitious AP for All initiative is the National Math and Science Initiative. Sponsored content by National Math and Science Initiative.
In the past decade, the terms makerspace, hackerspace and fablab have appeared on the horizon. These are new names for what people have always done—come together to fix things, make new things and learn from each other, says DA guest columnist and FETC featured speaker Sylvia Martinez, who is co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.
MIND Research Institute has partnered with Northside ISD to bring MIND's ST Math approach to math instruction to thousands of students across all of the Texas school district's 80 elementary campuses.
Chicago Teachers Union members begin casting ballots on Tuesday on whether or not to authorize a strike. The union has rejected an offer for a 16 percent pay raise over five years and is also asking for more staff such as nurses, librarians, social workers and special education teachers after years of cuts.
South Bend's school board last week considered contracting with a firm that would connect special education students with psychologists via video chat. The district still has five vacant psychologist positions.
Fifty years ago, communities began efforts to make school districts more racially integrated, believing it would ease racial disparities in students' educational opportunities. But new evidence shows that while racial segregation within a district is a very strong predictor of achievement gaps, school poverty accounts for this effect.
