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Elementary to High School

Following the lessons of learning science in schools isn’t convenient

by Tara García Mathewson February 7, 2018April 8, 2021

Gianna Gomez, age 7, pauses to reconsider after claiming “Achieving” as her top strength at Greer Elementary School.

Elementary to High School

Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet”?

by Gail Cornwall February 2, 2018March 30, 2020

Cornell eighth-grader Jada Jenkins uses a hand controller to communicate with other students and navigate through a forest in the Voyage virtual field trip.

Elementary to High School

How one high-poverty district is adding virtual reality to its classrooms

by Eleanor Chute February 1, 2018March 30, 2020

High school junior Tania Toriz, 16, and sophomore Jade Boling, 15, fix a screw on the top of a shed that their “Geometry in Construction” class constructed at Ritenour High School near St. Louis, Missouri.

Elementary to High School

OPINION: How 45-minute class periods stall learning

by Lee Fleming January 25, 2018March 30, 2020

Students in a marketing course at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island check their phones before class begins. To tame classroom distraction, their professor uses Flipd, an app that locks students out of their phones during class.

Elementary to High School

Dealing with digital distraction

by Chris Berdik January 22, 2018April 8, 2021

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. The candidates’ previous experience and skills will help speed them through the process.

News

New, MIT-based program proposes transforming physicists, engineers into teachers

by Jon Marcus January 18, 2018April 8, 2021

Students in a new “Geometry in Construction” class at Eureka High School near St. Louis, Missouri, prop up a wall of the tiny house they built.

Elementary to High School, Future of Learning, News, Solutions

Students apply geometry lessons to build tiny houses

by Kristen Taketa January 4, 2018March 30, 2020

Junior Alex DesRuisseaux and senior Jesus Garcia work in the library of the University of Maine at Presque Isle.

Future of Learning, Higher Education, News, Rural Education, Solutions

In rural Maine, a university eliminates most Fs in an effort to increase graduation rates

by Robbie Feinberg January 3, 2018February 9, 2022

Divided We Learn, Elementary to High School, Future of Learning

Internet access in schools: E-rate trends and the end of net neutrality

by Tara García Mathewson December 20, 2017March 30, 2020

A karate match like this one illustrates many of the tenets of personalized learning.

Future of Learning, Higher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Karate teaches us when to set the bar higher for students

by Chris Rush December 18, 2017April 8, 2021