If students choose what to learn, pursuing their own interests, they’ll be engaged and active learners, say some personalized-learning...

Young children average 48 minutes a day on mobile devices, up from five  minutes in 2011, according to The Common Sense Census: Media Use...

While schools struggle to teach basic 20th-century skills,  21st-century students will need to compete with robots for work in The Age of...

Severe anxiety afflicts more U.S. teens than ever, writes Benoit Denizet-Lewis in the New York Times Magazine. What’s going on? Over the...

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

Technology hasn’t transformed teaching and learning, notes Education Next, but some believe that’s due to “implementation problems — or...

Banning cellphones during lunch time has forced students to interact face to face, says Rebecca Gogel, principal of Corona del Mar Middle...

Rob Waldron, an ed-tech CEO, offers school districts advice on how to get the most for their ed-tech dollars in Education Next. It’s...

Personalized learning shows promise, but there are implementation challenges, writes RAND’s John F. Pane on Brookings’ Chalkboard blog....

Tech-savvy teachers are building their brands and forging relationships with edtech companies, reports Natasha Singer in the New York...

The average child gets his or her first smartphone at age 10, but some parents are pledging to keep their kids smartphone-free till...

Maine launched its laptops-for-all program 15 years ago, reports Robbie Feinberg on NPR. “Maine became the first, and still only, state...

Mastery learning — enabled by technology — is gaining popularity, reports Kyle Spencer in the New York Times Moheeb Kaied, a seventh...

Public support for charter schools has fallen among Democrats and Republicans, but opposition to school vouchers and tax-credit-funded...

The “super-connected,” smartphone-addicted teens of “iGen” are lonely and unhappy, writes Jean M. Twenge in The Atlantic. “Rates of teen...

As a math teacher I’ve long believed that the idea that today’s students are “digital natives”, and thus that they learn differently than...

AltSchools, which charge parents $30,000 a year, are experimenting with using technology to personalize learning. #AltSchool...

Bringing a laptop to class is a mistake, writes Cindi May in Scientific American, citing Michigan State research. Although computer use...

Parents worry about paying for college, a Learning Heroes survey shows. They worry if their kids are happy and safe at school. But they...

At a South Carolina school that’s experimenting with personalized learning, sixth graders plan a recipe during math class. Photo: James...