In both 2nd and 5fth grades, students who used the project-based-learning program scored better than the control-group students on a post-test designed to gauge students’ problem-solving ability.

Computer programming is not usually taught to 8-year-olds. But a new system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology turns building video games into child’s play. The system is ...

“Part of what makes it risky to launch collaborative problem-solving projects for a teacher is there’s a lack of research on how to set up contexts for problems,” said Art Graesser, a ...

Today the free program is used in more than 150 countries and thousands of schools, with more than 1,500 animations and games uploaded to the online Scratch community each day.