Skip to main content

K-12 education

Stanford Graduate School of Education —

Middle schoolers get a head start on neuroscience research

At the Brainwave Learning Center, middle school students work with Stanford scientists to study how educational experiences affect the brain.

Read More

Program trains aides to support inclusive classrooms

A collaboration between the GSE and the Santa Clara Unified School District gives paraeducators the tools they need to be effective.

Read More
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment —

Inspiring the next generation of sustainable energy researchers

Motivated to diversify their field, Stanford students are giving local high schoolers special access to their labs – and finding the positive outcomes go both ways.

Read More
Stanford Graduate School of Education —

Research finds racial disparity in school closures

A new Stanford analysis confirms what many have long suspected: Majority-Black public schools in the United States are far more likely to be shuttered.

Read More
Stanford Digital Education —

A summer of steep climbs and steeper learning curves

Six Stanford undergrads biked across the country hosting educational workshops for K‑12 students. Here’s what they learned.

Read More
Stanford Digital Education —

Stanford Spokes cycle and teach across America

The student group Stanford Spokes is riding from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., this summer, holding workshops on computer science, history, art, and physics for K-12 students along the way.

Read More
Stanford News —

What happened to students who left public schools during the pandemic?

Research by education professor Thomas S. Dee tracks their paths and shows a need to refocus academic recovery efforts on younger students.

Read More
Stanford News —

The pandemic’s impact on U.S. school districts

Stanford and Harvard researchers have produced an unprecedented map of trends in learning loss, combining local and national test score data to reveal patterns that vary from one school district to the next.

Read More

Stanford’s new vice provost for digital education on innovating for educational equity

Matthew Rascoff, vice provost for digital education, talks about the newly created office that will marshal Stanford’s teaching and learning expertise and technological capabilities to reach students who have been historically underserved by higher education.

Read More
Stanford Graduate School of Education —

How to teach data science in‌ K-12 schools

A team of scholars led by education Professor Jo Boaler introduces standards for teaching data science to students from kindergarten to high school.

Read More