Swedish preschools encourage boys to draw, dance and play in toy kitchens, while girls are taught to shout “No!,” reports Ellen Barry in...

Teacher Ann Woomert works with Aisha, 12, from Somalia, in class for English Learners at an Ontario school. Photo: Ian Willms/Boreal...

In gender-equal Norway and Finland, 20 percent of college graduates in science, engineering and math are women, compared to 41 percent in...

Sara Zaske moved to Germany with a four-year-old daughter, then gave birth to a son. In Achtung Baby she praises “the German art of...

Orderly classrooms help disadvantaged students become achievers, writes Greg Ashman, who teaches in Australia. He cites an OECD working...

In the U.S., disadvantaged kids start school behind on vocabulary and cultural experiences, then fall farther behind as they go through...

“Collaborative problem-solving” is a strength for U.S. teens, according to the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA),...

French schools will ban cell phones reports Henry Samuel in The Telegraph. In addition to a classroom ban, students will not be allowed...

Iceland’s teens are much less likely to get drunk, use drugs or smoke since the country focused on the problem in 1998, reports BBC News....

You’d never see this ad on American TV, says Let Grow. #Norway #play

High achievers don’t want to be teachers, reports Madeline Will for Education Week Teacher. “Around the world, students who want to go...

Female students outnumber males two to one at the University of Jordan Across the Arab world, girls rule in school, writes Amanda Ripley...

U.S. teachers earn less, relative to other college-educated workers, than teachers in most other countries, according to the Organisation...

Students are obedient achievers in a “military-like education system driven by high-stakes testing, with teachers posting rankings in...

It’s August, which means the start of school is just around the corner. Heck, I go back to work one week from today, and students show up...

In “Schools Are Still Peddling the Self-Esteem Hoax,” Fordham’s Checker Finn criticizes social and emotional learning as another fad....

The much-admired German apprenticeship system “relies on a very stratified education system along with regulated and heavily unionized...

Thousands of schools in China “are installing webcams in classrooms and streaming live on websites that are open to the public,”...

university will monitor students’ social media posts to assess their well-being and happiness, reports Richard Vaughan on iNews. The...

Israel is a global leader in technology, despite its small size, writes Naftali Bennett, a former high-tech CEO and now Minister of...