
A Podcast for Every Discipline
It’s well-known that podcasting is huge these days. But you might not realize how many educational podcasts are out there.

After 10 Years of Hopes and Setbacks, What Happened to the Common Core?
It was one of the most ambitious education efforts in United States history. Did it fail? Or does it just need more time to succeed?

UK to Test New “Ed Tech Testbeds” in Real Classrooms
The idea is to bring software developers, schools and researchers together to test new products that are already in classrooms and generate scientific evidence faster than a typical multi-year randomized control trial.

Why You Must Accept the Harsh Truth That Nobody Cares and You Need to Work Harder
Nobody said you have to like it, but acknowledging it is a necessity.

Math: The Most Powerful Civics Lesson You’ve Never Had
Elections are all about numbers, sometimes hinging on minuscule percentage-point differences in turnouts. Math teacher Alison Strole’s middle school students know this better than your average American, because they’ve actually had to wrestle with the data.

Google Earth’s creation tools help students tell stories with maps
With the goal of providing students with a new way to engage with learning through storytelling, Google Earth has unveiled a new set of new tools that enable maps to be customized and organized into visual narratives.

High School Students are Unprepared to Judge the Credibility of Information on the Internet
With the 2020 presidential election looming, Stanford education scholars find prospective young voters poorly equipped to evaluate online content.

Meet the school with no classes, no classrooms and no curriculum
“We get around 70 requests a week from all over the world from people wanting to come and see what we do here” says Rob Houben, manager of the Agora school in Roermond, Netherlands, and the closest thing school has to a principal or headteacher.

Modern high school math should be about data science — not Algebra 2
Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since Sputnik was sent into orbit in the late 1950s.

The Greatest Enemy of Creativity in Schools Isn’t Testing. It’s Time.
Creativity is one of those ineffable skills that’s important — especially for jobs of the future — but hard to pin down. We know when we feel creative, and…

How Free Online College Courses Are Changing the Game for Early Childhood Educators
On a recent morning in early October, when the day is in full swing, Dacie Derbidge settles onto a bean bag in a back corner at Little Leapers, the early learning center she opened two years ago…

From Ancient Monasteries to Futuristic Libraries
Agora put a call out for photos that depict what learning and education looks like around the world. Photographers from all over submitted their work as part of the #Education2019 contest, and 50 finalists were chosen by users.

Learning is Optimized When We Fail 15% of the Time
If you’re always scoring 100%, you’re probably not learning anything new. Research found that the ‘sweet spot’ for learning is 85%.

Outschool.com Takes Education Out Of Schooling
Emerging technology is increasingly helping to separate education from schooling and catalyze new models of K-12 learning.

The New 95
Martin Luther nailed his theses to a church door 500 years ago on October 31st. With your help, we are going to nail ours — ok, fine — tape ours to the doors of universities and schools across the country to mark the occasion.

‘Embrace the struggle’: Stanford education professor challenges common beliefs about teaching and learning
In a new book, Jo Boaler talks about the importance of struggles and mistakes in the learning process.

The key to helping kids learn problem solving is a computer science class
As all companies become tech companies, high school computer science teachers are changing the way they teach to attract a broad range of students.

