Some teachers say kids are just plain ruder these days, with a sharp increase in interruptions and outbursts in the classroom. New research from Brock University backs up those observations.

The Impact of Smartphone Use on Course Comprehension and Psychological Well-Being in the College Classroom. Innov High Educ. 2023;48 (3):527–537. doi: 10.1007/s10755-022-09638-1. Epub 2022 Nov 18.

Rather than rely on external rewards or punishment, these classroom management strategies focus on building community.

In this episode, we listen to a short story from Alexandrea Henry, reflecting on how carcerality is integrated not only in schools broadly, but even within the 1st grade classroom that she taught. Law ...

And the older the kids, the better they adjust to change as well as larger class-sizes. While Ms. Tilley's daughter Julia, now in Grade 1, adapted to back-to-back classroom shuffles, Ms. Tilley ...

In preschool classrooms, kids move in patterns resembling those of molecules in water vapour, physicists have discovered 1. Yi Zhang at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and his ...

This session is ideal for students in grades 5 - 7 (the content is not always suitable for JK - Gr. 4). What you can expect from your CBC Kids News in the Classroom hangout: ...