Education

Ken Royal How do you avoid technological obsolescence as you rethink where the classroom of today will be three to five years down the...

Ever since 2000, educators and education reform folks have been quick to refer to “21st-century education.” For over a decade, this term has been...

Everyone’s worried. Who will pay for Social Security and Medicare 50 years from now?  Will this texting/tweeting/PlayStation generation of kids have the requisite social...

Many of us will face new learners as another semester of classes begin. For some of us, this can be a frightening and stressful...

Students participate in financial decision-making every day, either actively — if they have been equipped with the tools they need to understand this role...

What does the future look like for middle-grades education? John Norton, founder of MiddleWeb.com, bravely took on this topic in an interview with SmartBrief’s...

We are better together. We are better for students when we work together to develop lessons. Students benefit when we share our favorite resources....

Walk yourself through this exercise. Take a clean sheet of paper and write down what you believe your students’ work environment will look like...

What inspired you to become an educator? For me, it was Mr. Miller, my 10th-grade biology teacher. There were others as well, but Mr....

Years ago, I stopped grading my students. This is shocking to most educators who wonder how assessment can be done without numbers and letters....

There is a definite art to effective financial communications. Communications on the financials are frequently given the least attention by public school districts yet...

This week’s Friday Feature highlights reader comments sparked by Nick Provenzano’s post “I’ve got 99 problems, but a test ain’t one,” where he invites...

Start reading a novel. Then ask: What has happened so far? What details help you understand the characters? What is this story beginning to...

I’m a big fan of the Food Network show “Restaurant Impossible.” The show features a struggling restaurant on the verge of going out of...

Poking through my Twitterstream the other day, I stumbled across a great quote from digital thought leader Marc Prensky. He wrote: “Technology gives kids...

One of the noblest jobs in the world is that of a teacher. We’re clearly not in the trade for the money. We’re there...

If a prominent urban school leader told you he couldn’t recall being informed that half his city’s schools may have allowed the gross mistreatment...

I’ve been wrestling with what would work as an American collective narrative, what could unite us in investing and supporting public education the way...

In the sweltering gym of my local high school, very deserving seniors collected trophies, plaques and scholarships during the senior awards assembly/graduation practice. I...

In a recent survey, readers of SmartBrief on EdTech expressed their support for the Obama administration’s goal to expand high-speed Internet in the nation’s...

Nationally, 1 in 5 students attend school in a rural district. U.S. efforts to improve STEM education may unintentionally have overlooked the unique challenges...

The Maker Movement is a technological and creative revolution underway around the world. Fortunately for educators, the Maker Movement overlaps with the natural inclinations...

September is National Literacy Month. This is a great opportunity for all school stakeholders to share their best practices that help promote a passion...

In this Q-and-A, Ralph Lyons, interim assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction for the East Greenbush Central School District in New York, discusses how...

Our school, Colegio Inglés, is a private 1:1 school in Monterrey, Mexico. We have established a very complete system and infrastructure in 1:1 technology...

I grew up somewhere in the middle class. My dad barely achieved a high-school education, but he was a hard worker. We borrowed books...

English language learners comprise the most rapidly growing segment of students in K-12. More than 10% of students are now identified as foreign language...

In this Q-and-A,  Kimberly Moritz, superintendent of schools at Randolph Central School District in New York discusses the district’s journey to a data-driven culture....

This month’s hottest stories from SmartBrief for the Higher Ed Leader span issues from MOOCs to enrollment at community colleges. For more education news...