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Is Sweden's classroom-free school the future of learning?

A Swedish school system (Vittra), which operates 30 schools, is seeking to ensure learning takes place everywhere on campus by eliminating more

Educate, engage, and inspire your students with video!

I heard about this last night and I simply couldn't be happier!
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Researching schools for your children

How do you decide which form of education is best for your child? A research from a father's perspective.

Advantages of learning in multicultural environments

Calling a Teacher 'cute' = harassment?

Sometimes I think people have lost their minds...

9yo suspended for calling teacher 'cute'....

Any behaviour that creates an unfriendly environment to its targets, is also recognised as harassment.
Educating our children on the more

Give inner city kids the gift of hand-on Space/Astronomy Camp

My friend Jessica is a teacher at an inner-city school with limited resources. She and her colleagues have been working hard to get the more

I'm quoted in this article about cyberbullying

This is what good sex education looks like

The class, taught as an elective at a private Quaker high school in Philadelphia, represents everything that sex education should be–and more

Interesting post on the views of Australian teachers

"Raise your own kids"

Oakland trying for more failures

smooth move Oakland. what else will you screw up next??

Waiting For Superman (Documentary)

Our Public Education System needs an overhaul. Run-down communities don't make run-down schools... It's the other way around. This is a more

After School Scandal, Atlanta Picks New Leaders

Parents are still weary of the new selections

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Brilliant way to get books for schools

Apparently you have Woolworths stores in America etc but if you don't, you may want to consider getting your local supermarkets in your own more

School without walls fosters a free-wheeling theory of learning

Instead of endless rows of desks, this school has got neon-green “sitting islands” and whimsical picnic tables, where students and more

Maybe Not Such A Good Idea...

As one Twitter user put it: “If people knew just how bad the state of technology budgets is in most high schools, requiring tablets would more

Finland's Schools Are The Best

Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do more

So What Do YOU Think?

Should schools police what students are doing on Social Media sites? Should the same rules apply as they do to employees? Do schools want to more

PHOTOS: Fatal Shootings at Virginia Tech Campus

A police officer secures the scene where a gunman killed a police officer and another person after a traffic stop on the campus of Virginia more