Edutopia

Boosting Midyear Engagement With Place-Based PBL

High school teachers can build projects around issues in the local community to motivate students before and after winter ...
Edutopia

Making Project-Based Learning More Impactful by Emphasizing Depth Over Speed

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

St. C. schools unveils newly renovated MakerSpace, science labs

The St. Clairsville-Richland City School District recently hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to unveil five newly renovated high school science labs and a state-of-the-art MakerSpace designed to ...
The Journal

PBLWorks Launches Web-based App to Help Scale Project-Based Learning

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 ...
The Hechinger Report

Project-based learning and standardized tests don’t mix

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 ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Transforming Higher Education through Project-Based Learning

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 ...
The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Project-based ...
Seattle Times

Project-based learning is how we teach critical thinking

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 ...
EdSurge

What’s the Difference Between Project- and Challenge-Based Learning, Anyway?

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 ...
The Washington Post

Project-based learning confronts students with uncertainty. Finally.

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) ...
EdSource

Project-based learning on the rise under the Common Core

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 ...