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 ...

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.' ...

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 ...

Tucked into the southwest corner of the Navajo Nation, Arizona’s STAR School is a charter school that knows its place—literally. The school is completely “off the grid,” powered by solar panels and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Murie Ranch, in the Grand Teton National Park, is often called the birthplace of the modern conservation movement. It was home to Olaus Murie and his wife Mardy. Olaus was president of the Wilderness ...