In today's world, teachers have a long wish-list for their students: They want them to be globally competent, problem solvers, critical thinkers, technology literate and collaborative, to name just a ...

Do the newly released results from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) throw cold water on project-based learning? The results, issued this week, examined instructional ...

Rigorous, differentiated, student-centered classrooms. For many educators, that’s the ideal. The trick is actually creating such classrooms, much less doing the work well. And that challenge has never ...

A large, international study shows that problem-based learning is more effective than standard instruction in math and science, and a national survey confirms that students, parents and teachers all ...

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President Barack Obama lauded Manor New Technology High School last month, holding it up as a model for others to emulate. The Texas school doesn't use textbooks. It doesn't offer Advanced Placement ...

This paper reports on the assessment of initial data from an ongoing, award-winning service learning project called “Computer Training for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities.” The project was ...

The California-based nonprofit PBLWorks recently announced a partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education on a multi-year initiative to use virtual training to bring project-based learning to ...

Micah Castelo is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K-12. Her experience includes education and community news coverage for the Syracuse Post-Standard and international news reporting for the Pulitzer ...

This article is part of the collection: What Personalized Learning Looks Like Across the Country: The 2017 Fifty States Project. Montana is called Big Sky Country for a reason. It’s a state filled ...