Graduation season is here and it’s time for even the youngest graduates to walk across the stage, receive their diplomas, and toss those…
Australia’s most forward-thinking schools are already stepping forward—have you secured your place? As nominations continue for this year’s 5-Star Best Schools, The Educator is once again…
By Nupur Bagoria Many teachers don’t have a detailed financial plan for retirement—and that’s completely understandable. Day-to-day classroom demands often leave little room…
As education budgets tighten and federal relief funding expires, arts programs across the country once again find themselves on the chopping block. Recent…
Repetitio est mater studiorum. Or to say it another way, repetition is the mother of learning. And while repetition sometimes gets a bad…
Ayumi Kubo / Unsplash Celeste Rodriguez Louro, The University of Western Australia I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as…
Frustrated with reading countless AI-generated take-home essays and long ago disillusioned with scantrons, I plunged into oral exams this finals season. The classes were lower-division history courses: one comprised mostly…
Created by New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, DailySpark is an innovative 30-day digital learning experience designed to help…
When there’s a bug going around the school, teachers are usually the first to know—and the first to catch it. But not only…
There’s a widely circulated YouTube video you may have seen called “A Conference Call in Real Life.” To spoof the strange, stilted dynamics…
Dear We Are Teachers, I’m a veteran teacher with solid classroom management skills—at least, I used to be. This year, my 5th graders…
We asked the scientists at Van Andel Institute for Education, “What skills do students need if they want to become great scientists?” Their…
On May 28 of this year, the Texas State Legislature passed Senate Bill 10, which requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in…
By Christine Morin As kids prepare to step through the school doors and start another year, I’m particularly mindful of the 20 million…
Teachers may recognize the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) brand as one bearing a strong reputation for trustworthy news and information on wide-ranging global…
“Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” —Marie Curie In my role as a fellow at my university’s…
When I was handed the class list at the start of term, I sensed it was an opportunity to try something. The list…
A growing number of studies show that Australia’s education system is in urgent need of reform. With one of the most socially segregated…
While the worst of the Covid pandemic is behind them, Australia’s schools still wrestle with familiar, stubborn issues that the lockdowns and their…