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MindShift explores the future of learning and how we raise our kids. We report on how teaching is evolving to better meet the needs of students and how caregivers can better guide their children. This means examining the role of technology, discoveries about the brain, racial and gender bias in education, social and emotional learning, inequities, mental health and many other issues that affect students. We report on shifts in how educators teach as they apply innovative ideas to help students learn.

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MindShift is a service of KQED News and was launched in 2010 by KQED and NPR. Ki Sung is MindShift’s senior editor. If you have questions, story pitches or just want to say hi, contact us by email.

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May 29

Want to Incorporate More Play in Learning? Try the Play Workshop Structure

May 28

School Vendors Get Paid No Matter the Outcome. Some Schools Are Changing the Contracts.

May 27

Strategies for Bringing 'Desirable Difficulty' Into Learning

May 22

Want To Incorporate the Arts Into Other Classes? Let These 7 Art Books Inspire You

May 21

AI Essay Grading Could Help Overburdened Teachers, But Researchers Say It Needs More Work

May 20

Iowa Superintendent and Former Olympian Bested in Footrace by 5th-Grader

May 18

These Teens Were missing Too Much School. Here's What It Took to Get Them Back

May 18

Why Children with Disabilities Are Missing School and Losing Skills

May 15

Support for MindShift is provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, sponsors and the members of KQED.