A recent study shows that children should spend at least one hour playing and spending time in nature each day. Like that they demonstrate a remarkable increase in personal wellbeing and health.
Middle school students practicing meditation as part of a school Quiet Time program had significant improvements in social-emotional competencies and psychological distress, according to a new U.S. study.
A legislative proposal in Connecticut, U.S. would mandate instruction on climate change in public schools statewide, beginning in elementary school.
In 2014, Elon Musk pulled all his five children out from their private school and created a little school according to their needs for the future. By doing this, he gave the first step in changing the future of education.
Hate crimes in large cities have increased since 2014, but schools offer a place where students can gain a better understanding of people in other lands and cultures and learn to empathize with them.
Texting under the table should be a thing of the past after French children returned to class Monday following a nationwide ban on mobile phones in schools.
Riverbend School in India is planning to focus on personal happiness, and turning out children who will give back to the world in a positive way.
Nature-based preschools have been popular in Europe for decades, especially in Germany and Scandinavia. Studies show that kids who learn outdoors have better academic results.
Students who spend a class session in a natural outdoor setting are more engaged and less distracted in their regular classroom afterward than when they remain indoors, scientists found in a new study.
Kids learn to build robots, code and create renewable energy.
Children may have a greater understanding of how to innovate and problem solve than previously realised.
Blue Sky School was built to mimic entrepreneurial incubators and innovation centres.
A company designed and recently completed the Herningsholm Vocational School, a Danish school that focuses on the creation of optimal learning and study environments.
The Roskilde Festival Folk High School will differ in many ways from the typical high school. The alternative school has neither curriculum nor exams. Education will usually be focused on creative and humanistic topics, as well as on common life at school.
Humans are a part of nature in every moment, in every place, and recognizing this puts a different lens on how you interact with the world’s ecological and social communities.
