Blogger Andrew Marcinek describes how he uses technology to keep students connected -- and engaged -- during the summer months. […]

When students lack curiosity and are disinterested in the classroom, teachers need to reevaluate their lesson plan. […]

Although many schools provide teachers with a small budget for school supplies, those funds are often insufficient to cover classroom needs. […]

Guest blogger Cheryl Young remember the legacy of Amelia Earhart on her birthday. […]

Teacher Heather Wolpert-Gawron shares an idea for project-based learning when students return in fall. […]

Michael Sadowski makes some extremely thoughtful points about what growing numbers of scholars and the popular press have come to refer to as a “crisis” in boys’ ongoing academic failure in American public schools. Sadowski argues that we must go “beyond gender” to the highly potent embedded contexts of social class, ethnicity, and race. While agreeing with […]

Harvard Education Letter won two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) at a ceremony in Washington D.C. on June 8, 2010. AEP is a nonprofit member organization serving the educational resource industry. The Harvard Education Letter was awarded AEP’s “Best Newsletter” in the category of Adult Learning for the th […]

Across today’s developed countries, educators, policymakers, and economists recognize that the new “knowledge economy” demands different, higher-level skills than the 20th-century high school or upper secondary school provided. Young people interested in white-collar jobs in high-growth areas such as health care, tourism, and high tech as well as those choos […]