The project is focused on student learning goals, including standards-based content and skills such as critical thinking/problem solving, collaboration and self-management.

While project-based learning can indeed be successful and exciting, it is hardly new. It is, in fact, a century old, as education historian Jack Schneider explains in this post.

Students develop lifelong benefits from project-based learning, where they gain the broad, transferable skills employers are looking for.

How can you incorporate project-based learning into your studies? The easiest way to use PBL is by studying with a real-world problem in mind.

Project-based learning advocates are confident that it can succeed in Philadelphia. Less certain, however, is whether its adoption can push educators, students and families to re-examine assumptions ...

At its higher levels, the taxonomy “moves you more toward project-based learning that requires synthesis and problem-solving, as opposed to rote recitation, where you told me the answer, I memorized ...