Microsoft, is trying to “schoolify” Minecraft, the wildly popular world-building game. The latest idea, Litcraft, lets kids build models...

Bill Gates is offering all 2018 college graduates a free download of his favorite book, Hans Rosling’s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re...

The Declaration of Independence includes hate speech, according to Facebook’s algorithm. Christian Britschgi explains on Reason‘s blog....

My husband’s grandson is turning 3. Mom and Dad requested a gift of Newtonian Physics for Babies. Here are some other ideas:...

Children — and their parents and teachers face a “crisis of self-regulation,” argues Katherine Reynolds Lewis in The Good News About Bad...

Gopnik, a psychology and philosophy professor at Berkeley, wants parents to let their children grow freely without too much worry about...

When novelist Ian McEwan’s son had to write a school essay on one of his father’s books, Enduring Love, McEwan “gave him a tutorial” on...

Sara Zaske moved to Germany with a four-year-old daughter, then gave birth to a son. In Achtung Baby she praises “the German art of...

When it is fun, it’s often because of “cognitive struggle,” the joy of doing what’s hard, Boser believes. As a teacher, Cepeda is tired...

To protect students from racial slurs that might make them feel uncomfortable and “marginalized,” Duluth public schools will drop To Kill...

She likes Carla Shalaby’s book, Troublemakers, subtitled “lessons in freedom from young children at school.” A former elementary teacher,...

Apple should design parental controls to keep kids from overusing iPhones, argue two major shareholders in a Jan. 6 letter, reports Luke...

Bobby Fischer became the youngest international grand master of chess at the age of 15. Mozart composed a concerto at the age of four. By...

In The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom, journalist Helen Thorpe describes the progress of newly...

Was Emily Dickinson gay? How about Ralph Waldo Emerson? The California Board of Education has rejected two proposed middle-school...

Reading wasn’t fun for Kathleen Carroll’s eight-year-old son. As a struggling reader, he spent his days “decoding worksheets and...

To Kill a Mockingbird is back in Biloxi schools— with parental permission — weeks after it was removed from the required eighth-grade...

Biloxi (MS) eighth-graders won’t read To Kill a Mockingbird because someone complained, said Kenny Holloway, vice president of the school...

Education technology can be a waste of teachers’ and students’ time, argue two teachers in a new book, Screen Schooled. Joe Clement and...

John Merrow’s new book, Addicted to Reform, offers a rosy and unachievable vision for public school change, writes Checker Finn. Merrow...