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 ...

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 ...

Questions abound about the state of liberal arts and sciences colleges post-pandemic. Will they survive? Will they thrive? Will remote learning, now firmly part of our educational tool kit, remain a ...

Growing up in a rural farming community, Dr. Jodie Winship understood that education was important but, for many, not possible due to poverty, commitments to family farming businesses and a host of ...

Well, in the ancient world, the word 'genius' was not so much used about individual people, it was used about places, and almost always with the world loci. Genius loci meant 'the spirit of a place.' ...

New Tech Network (NTN) is a national non-profit organization based in Napa, California, that partners with districts and communities to develop innovative K-12 learning environments. Schools in the ...

This article is part of the collection: What Personalized Learning Looks Like Across the Country: The 2017 Fifty States Project. Montana is called Big Sky Country for a reason. It’s a state filled ...

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 ...

Correction: This story and photo captions have been updated to correct the spelling of Green School lead coordinator Eradajere Oleita’s name. Detroit — After deciding, in class, what they would add to ...

The K–12 school on Akutan Island in the Aleutian chain has two teachers. Last year was the first time they were local Unangax̂ residents — and they're continuing to teach this year. The teachers say ...

In spring 2018, 15 undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Alabama at Birmingham participated in a six-credit-hour travel course by touring throughout the Deep South to learn more ...

Brenda Perry, 58, still dreams of a bachelor’s degree, even though she’s been an early childhood educator since 1986. “I just cannot afford education and pay my rent and insurance and all this other ...