Many of the teachers and students who have written for this blog have described projects in which students worked in teams to solve problems and produce products. Here is a recent example from a ...

If you want to get things done in the 21st century, collaboration is key. To better understand this important skill, two Florida State University researchers joined a team developing a model for ...

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Workforce readiness skills. Employability skills. Professional skills. Soft skills. 21 st century skills. It’s no secret that we are in a time where skills, whatever you want to call them, are at a ...

Challenges are a fact of life. Whether it’s a high-tech company figuring out how to shrink its carbon footprint, or a local community trying to identify new revenue sources, people are continually ...

Grant makers are especially well positioned to get nonprofit organizations to work together on common problems in their communities, write Joseph A. Connor and Stephanie Kadel-Taras, chief executive ...

Twenty years ago, the school district was at an impasse. According to Assistant Superintendent and Chief Financial Officer Shannon Pelland, “We were financially upside down. We had frozen salaries for ...

Gisèle Huff is one of the nation’s most spirited advocates for the transformation of elementary and secondary education (K–12) through school choice and increased use of computer technology. She is ...

Girls are much better than boys at working together to solve problems, according to a new study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The forum of democratic nations ...