What is Place-based Learning? Place-based learning is an instructional approach that focuses on developing student’s sense of place and learning through exploring their environment. Thus, most ...

The K–12 school on Akutan Island has two teachers. Last year was the first time they were local Unangax̂ residents — and they ...

On an overpass in North Portland overlooking Interstate 5, Kathryn Nock and Jordan Stokes are taking stock of the neighborhood, including nearby Harriet Tubman Middle School. “It’s kind of hard to ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Situated in a meeting room overlooking the Mississippi River, six project directors and their evaluators gathered at the Tulane River and Coastal Center in New Orleans, Louisiana as part of the first ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It’s often said that people learn in different ways, some through listening, others through ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article, which focuses on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1960); Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976); and Helena ...

School districts in every state now have the green light to establish competency-based education programs and models in their classrooms—but they have a lot of work to do on the operational side to ...

The Iowa Department of Education reports a significant increase in the number of students participating in work-based ...

This image shows the Genome Island avatars of participants in UW’s recent Learning Actively Mentoring Program and the Office of Online and Digital Learning e-Camp. From left are Ryan Goeken, Juhyeon ...