Your child may be more innovative than you realise

Children may have a greater understanding of how to innovate and problem solve than previously realised.

Danish school that optimizes learning through design

A company designed and recently completed the Herningsholm Vocational School, a Danish school that focuses on the creation of optimal learning and study environments.

Former concrete factory begins anew as an alternative high school with no curriculum

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.

A Teacher received $1Mil Prize For Life-changing Work in Isolated Arctic Community

Maggie MacDonnell has just been recognized for her astoundingly compassionate 6-year career in an isolated, fly-in village nestled in the Arctic Circle.

New experimental architecture school to be built in Denmark

The new Aarhus School of Architecture is meant to be an experimental laboratory serving as a bridge between students and the city, with facilities for learning and community use.

Learning From the Outside In With an ECO Education

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Interview with UAE's Minister of Tolerance

UAE Minister of Tolerance H.E. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi says everyone including diplomats, clergymen and ministers have been consulted with to set up a program to promote tolerance.

Overhauling How We Teach Our Kids in a World of Accelerating Change

Five issues with today’s elementary schools, five guiding principles for future education and exponential technologies for our classrooms.

Greek teachers learn ABCs of particle physics at CERN

CERN’s CMS Experiment has organized a new pilot training program, titled “Playing with Protons,” which allows teachers to get acquainted with the basics of particle physics and subsequently transfer their experiences and knowledge to their pupils.

The Future Of Education: We Live In A Social World

HundrED is a global, non-profit project aiming to bring together a vision of education for the next 100 years, collecting 100 innovations from Finland and a further 100 from around the world, along with commentary from global thought leaders.

How German schools teach climate change, sustainable transport

Students in Berlin and Hamburg learn everything from urban gardening to safely using public transportation on their own

New test for 'growth mindset', the theory that anyone who tries can succeed

Researchers are going to examine the theory from American psychology that has taken UK schools by storm. “Growth mindset” is the name given by psychologist Carol Dweck to the idea that intelligence can develop, and that effort leads to success.

How will cloud-based schools change education? By Prof. Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra is professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. “Our current system is training clerks. We have to change it if we don’t want to make people like machines,” said Mitra.

A Radical Way of Unleashing a Generation of Geniuses

These students in Matamoros, Mexico, didn't have reliable Internet access, steady electricity, or much hope—until a radical new teaching method unlocked their potential.