Can project-based learning help close the achievement gap? New research focused on young elementary schoolers suggests that a well-designed and well-taught project-based-learning curriculum can help ...

Can the long-struggling Philadelphia school system change how we measure success by focusing on meaningful work instead of test scores? Ninth-graders at the Science Leadership Academy work on a group ...

The days of hands-on projects left college students’ minds years ago, replaced with sleep deprivation and cramming for midterms. But that’s not how it should be. With the school’s outstanding rankings ...

Editor’s Intro: Today, Emily Mulvey, cross-subject itinerant teacher, and Sandra Makielski, NEA Global Leadership Fellow and 7th grade geography teacher, both from Davisville Middle School in North ...

The return to project-based learning, paired with today's AI tools, has created a new learning paradigm. Here, Mark Frydenberg, distinguished lecturer of Computer Information Systems and director of ...

Teachers complete a dollar disparity activity/lesson at PBL World in Napa, CA. Every year, the annual PBL World conference attracts educators far and wide to Napa, CA, to partake in five days of ...

The young-adult novel “Hatchet” – about a boy who learns to live in the wild after surviving a plane crash – has been a staple of elementary-school English classes for years. But this year Sara ...

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The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Project-based ...

Big multistep projects teach the practical skills of project management. Challenging projects build the habits of persistence (sometimes called grit) and self direction. If they include some degree of ...