When the goal is to practice college-level research, build entrepreneurial skills and prepare students for collaborative careers, one Chicago school recognizes the need to incorporate information ...

Teachers can help students get the most out of PBL by focusing on the development of effective learning habits.

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the ...

PBLWorks, the provider of professional development for project-based learning (PBL), has introduced PBLWorks TEACH, a web-based application that provides ready-to-use, standards-aligned PBL projects ...

New Media Technology Charter School’s 2011 Science Fair was held on Wednesday night, where about 30 projects showed how students learn by doing. Even the title of the “Fantastic Plastic” exhibit ...

Elementary school students in Illinois whose teachers used a project-based-learning curriculum had stronger scores on a math test that measured problem solving than their peers from more-traditional ...

Students begin preparing for life after graduation the moment they step on campus their first year. Their time as undergraduates is valuable and limited—in just a few short years, they will prepare ...

For this fifth year of The Seattle Times Student Voices project, we invited students from Washington public high schools and colleges to work with Education Lab to write about issues of educational ...

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 ...

Kelina and Dante were already behind the other groups on the day’s task: building a parallel circuit with two light bulbs and a switch. So when their partnership devolved into name-calling, my first ...

A solar cooker made by students at the East Bay Innovation Academy in Oakland, Calif., using the Learning Through Performance curriculum developed at Stanford University. (East Bay Innovation Academy) ...

Here’s a quick exercise for those in education: What do the letters CBL stand for? For many, competency-based learning might have been the first thing to pop in their heads. But others might have ...