It's Media Literacy Monday in journalism class at Cupertino's Monta Vista High School, and Silicon Valley students are analyzing...

California teachers are supposed to incorporate "media literacy" into lessons in history, English, science and math, reports Saleen...

I'm so old I don't know the words to Conjunction Junction. Schoolhouse Rock, animated musical shorts on grammar, history, civics,...

America to Me, now on Starz, explores a suburban Chicago high school where black and white students “find themselves on different tracks,...

She cites cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham, author of The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads...

For today’s teens, “time on digital media has displaced time once spent enjoying a book or watching TV,” concludes Jean Twenge, author of...

I have no desire to remember my eighth-grade self. If the new movie Eighth Grade captures what it’s like to be an insecure 13-year-old, I...

Today’s students don’t like to study in silence. A new kind of internet radio known as “lo-fi hip-hop” or “chillhop” is helping students...

IQ scores are falling, at least for Norwegian men, writes Scottie Andrew in Newsweek. For most of the 20th century, IQ scores have risen...

Incredibles 2 is a winner, writes Tyler O’Neil on PJ Media. The family of superheroes works together to defeat Screenslaver, who “uses...

The Trump administration’s school safety commission will examine the “culture of violence,” but not the role of guns, Education Secretary...

The Columbine killers have “inspired” a wave of teen-age boys and young men to attack schools, colleges and other easy targets, reports...

It’s de rigeur on campus today to control speech, especially that of conservative speakers.  It’s odd indeed to hear that access to John...

Rise, NBC’s new high school drama, premieres tonight at 10 Eastern. It’s Friday Night Lights meets Glee, writes Ed Week‘s Mark Walsh. A...

Black Panther, a huge box office hit, is a “hit with teachers” too, reports Brenda Iasevoli in Ed Week. Teachers are building lessons...

When is a child ready for social media asks Judi Ketteler in the New York Times. Her 9-year-old son is showing off his flips on...

A California girl was suspended from the basketball team for retweeting Snoop Dogg holding what appears to be a marijuana joint, reports...

Only two full-time K-12 education reporters cover the San Francisco Bay Area for the major newspapers, I wrote on The Grade a few weeks...

A Colorado mother shot the first video for her child in 1996. “Five years later, she sold the company to Disney for a reported $25...

Newspapers have slashed education reporting in the San Francisco Bay Area: Two K-12 reporters (who also cover kids, families and breaking...