Current Issues in Education

Action plans for solving typical parent-teacher conflicts like an old pro.

Disruptive and confrontational students are sometimes an unavoidable challenge. If handled poorly, these confrontations can lead to power struggles and more disruptions. We asked educators for their advice on defusing these tense situations.

Classroom management strategies to help you separate real bathroom breaks from the bogus ones.

How are great teachers created? Practice, practice, practice, says Deborah Ball, dean of the University of Michigan School of Education.

Med Kharbach lists 10 essential social media skills for teachers of all sorts in a creative infographic, based on an article by Doug Johnson.

Getting through October and November can be tough for first-year teachers. Having someone along for the ride can help, and a veteran teacher near Miami offers hope and advice.

It’s not exactly breaking news that students cheat in school, how prevalent is the problem? Denise Pope talks about strategies to curb student cheating.

When summer hits, teachers often find themselves busy with all the business they were unable to accomplish during the frantic school year.

The dilemma educators are facing now that school shootings appear to be happening more frequently in the U.S.

Is it a good time to become a teacher? Salaries haven't kept up with inflation, tenure is under attack and standardized test scores are being used to fire teachers. And that's if you get a job. Special correspondent for education John Merrow reports on the struggles for today's newly trained educators to find work and stay in the classroom.

The Teacher’s Guide to Keeping Students Safe Online. 3 Tips for Educating Students About Online Safety. What Should Teachers Do To Keep Students Safe Online

Computers may dominate our lives, but mastery of penmanship brings us important cognitive benefits, research suggests

Edutopia blogger Andrew Marcinek provides a thoughtful course correction for teachers facing full-on technology integration, offering three suggestions for focusing on media and balancing it with what students should be learning.

Learn about the pros and cons of smaller class sizes.

Computer code is the next universal language, and its syntax will be limited only by the imaginations of the next generation of programmers. Linda Liukas is helping to educate problem-solving kids, encouraging them to see computers not as mechanical, boring and complicated but as colorful, expressive machines meant to be tinkered with. In this talk, she invites us to imagine a world where the Ada Lovelaces of tomorrow grow up to be optimistic and brave about technology and use it to create a new world that is wonderful, whimsical and a tiny bit weird.

Concerns of what kids can access online caused schools to teach students about digital citizenship; the idea that we’re interconnected through the Internet.

As the week drags on in school, it can be hard to keep your head above water. Professor Gail Kinman explains what small things teachers can do every day to maintain their mind, body and soul

Think about what makes a great teacher. Fundamentally, it’s the ability to quickly analyze available knowledge — a student’s blank stare, for example — to decide if a student is “getting it” and respond accordingly.

Some say traditional grading systems don't show what a student really knows. Hear what one school is doing about it.

The very thought of sending kids to school year-round makes some parents cringe. They balk at the idea of kids attending schools with no summer break. They question the value of a continuous school year interspersed with several short breaks. While the schedule is definitely not what the majority of adults grew up with, it's not nearly as onerous as some people think. Rather than giving kids less time off, a year-round schedule offers the same 180 days of schooling as the traditional calendar, created long ago to ensure children were home to help their parents harvest crops.

Has your child shed tears over the amount of homework he has? Has he stayed up until 10 p.m. working on assignments? Have you sacrificed your weekends for homework?

There is a place on school campuses for students who break the rules.

In some Florida schools, it's called SCSI.

Marcus Pryor, a junior at Miami Northwestern Senior High, thinks it stands for School Criminal Scene Investigation.

SCSI actually stands for School Center for Special Instruction. And in Miami, it's where students go when they get an in-school

The battle over bathroom access for transgender students is heating up. The U.S. departments of Justice and Education issued a directive last month for the n...