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 ...

Place-Based Education (PBE, #PlaceBasedEd) is an approach to learning that takes advantage of geography to create authentic, meaningful and engaging personalized learning for students. More ...

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 ...

This article is part of the collection: What Personalized Learning Looks Like Across the Country: The 2017 Fifty States Project. Montana is called Big Sky Country for a reason. It’s a state filled ...

Counterintuitively to some people, the post-COVID campus will have a renewed, more dynamic sense of place, not a diminished one, writes Laurie L. Patton. Questions abound about the state of liberal ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - More than 1,000 public school students embarked Tuesday on an immersive week of voyaging-based and ʻāina-based learning with the Polynesian Voyaging Society. Hoʻākea is a ...

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 ...

As Brian Earls’ fifth grade class at Fairview Elementary School prepared for their “bio blitz” toward the end of the school year, students were eager to get outside. He sprayed them with bug repellent ...

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 ...

Four place-based learning practices that can connect students to community, nature and a sense of hope for the future In a higher education landscape marked by technological upheaval and student ...