Pittsburgh leaders showcase the region’s work at the National League of City's Summit on Your City's Families.

Why the Sprout Fund is encouraging educators to share their best recipes for learning.

What does it take for today’s students to succeed? What is it exactly that makes some learners so self-directed, while others lack motivation? Pittsburgh students let us in on what keeps them engaged, and why it’s not all about grades.

The Kids+Creativity Network is working to make education a deeper journey that continues outside of school. Here's why.

Everyone knows exercise improves kids’ health, but research shows it can also promote academic achievement.

With its unique capacity for innovation, can Pittsburgh become a "Globally Fluent metro area" like Helsinki?

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher A.J. Burnett better watch out—young Pittsburgh makers have built a worthy competitor.

Games-based learning is about much more than playing. Experts say when used well, games can give students powerful learning experiences in and out of school.

A new public art project at transit stops aims to teach early literacy skills and improve communication between young children and their parents.

Jobs are returning but not everyone will be ready to take them unless we do more to prepare our students for a high-skilled workforce. In that respect, Pittsburgh is ahead of the curve.

Amy Eshleman is spearheading the expansion of Learning Labs at libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions in cities across the country. The unique digital spaces are designed to inspire teens to become creators and makers, not just passive consumers of digital media.

Education reformers should look to Pittsburgh for inspiration about next generation schools and partnerships.

As technology empowers today’s kids to explore, create, and share their interests in new ways both in and out of school, ensuring access to quality arts education for all our students is an imperative.

Pittsburgh is fast becoming a seat of innovation in digital media and learning.

Educators in the Pittsburgh suburb of Elizabeth say yes. Modeled after YOUmedia, and informed by new research about how kids learn today, an innovative digital space for teens opens at Elizabeth Forward High School.

Writing in the Pittsburgh Business Times, Malia Spencer describes how Thermo Fisher Scientific, with local offices in the Pittsburgh Technology Center on 2nd Avenue, joins UPMC, Highmark, BNY-Mellon, PNC, and Giant Eagle as the latest corporate citizen to establish a named scholarship fund through the Pittsburgh Promise. Thermo Fisher Scientific Corp. is joining a handful […]

New Chapter, the newsletter of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, takes readers inside The Labs @ CLP to see how teens are using the library in revolutionary new ways.

Melissa Butler writes a guest post for the Spark blog on her use of inquiry-based learning in her Kindergarten classroom at Pittsburgh Allegheny K-5.

Educators, researchers, and scientists in Pittsburgh are using technology as a powerful tool that awakens the imagination and fosters the cognitive development of young children.

Leanne Bowler of Pitt's iSchool shares her thoughts on the challenges technology and media place on metacognition, or thinking about thinking

Pittsburgh workshop attracts interdisciplinary professionals from around the country

Ready your submissions- the DML2013 proposal deadline is coming up on November 6, 2012!

Pittsburgh has just been accepted to hold a Creative Mornings chapter! Host Kate Stoltzfus of yinzperation will be cultivating creatives for this monthly breakfast lecture series!

The SMALLab at Elizabeth Forward Middle School gets some fantastic coverage in Education Week.