A community effort to redesign a school playground
Daniela Gaspoz is a mother of four kids and an urban planner. In this article, for Child in the City, she reflects on her initiative and journey as a parent counselor to help transform her...Read more
Connecting urban children to the environment with theatre
The ‘Little Fir Tree Project’ allows inner city children in Islington to learn about the wonder and importance of trees by combining arts and the environment. The project aims to increase awareness of the necessity of trees in...Read more
The next generation of Australian schools
With hundreds of new schools needed in Victoria in the coming decade, how will they meet future student and community needs? Australia will need an estimated 400 to 750 new schools to accommodate 650,000 additional students...Read more
Should Urban Studies be taught in high school?
Vancouver-based urbanist Jillian Glover reflects on the new urban studies curriculum for high school students in British Columbia, Canada. When I was a child, I didn’t really understand what my Dad did for work. He was...Read more
Community schools in Egypt: lessons on what works, and what doesn’t
The ‘community school’ model in Egypt is no longer confined to just rural areas and can increasingly can be found in larger population areas. Despite this expansion though, all such schools need to work harder...Read more
Tech firms’ innovation can help city children – UNICEF
Developing ‘blended’ online learning opportunities is how technology companies could inspire hundreds of millions of schoolchildren in cities worldwide, says UNICEF. It’s one of the conclusions from new research by the United Nations’ children’s charity into...Read more
School food partnership aims to help thousands of US children
An ambitious new national school food alliance aims to help children in some of the USA’s largest urban areas eat and live more healthily. FoodCorps and the Urban School Food Alliance are two influential non-profit organisations...Read more
World leaders unite to provide quality education to young people
World leaders have united to address the basic right of children and young people to receive an education. ‘Generation Unlimited’ is a far-reaching initiative that aims to get every young person prepared for future employment by...Read more
Low-scoring schools in Florida make their days longer
Camille Watkins’ day as a fourth grade teacher got a little longer last year. The elementary school where she taught had been named one of Florida’s 300 lowest-performing schools. It meant the school was required...Read more
Finding what really works in education
Using data and reason, rather than intuition, to decide where to invest the large sums spent globally on education would make a huge difference to the learning outcomes of many students. This is the opinion...Read more
EU’s fruit and milk scheme reaches millions of schoolchildren
The European Union (EU) has relaunched a successful scheme which gives fruit, milk and vegetables to schools for helping millions of children in European cities eat healthily. Dedicated educational programmes will also teach pupils about the...Read more
CitC conference to showcase bilingual kids learning book
A bilingual picture book that helps young children’s language skills will be showcased at next month’s Child in the City World Conference. Papperlapapp was originally devised by a team of child and design experts in Austria...Read more
GCSE results: why bright, poor students fail to achieve top grades
The fourth Thursday in August is a day that is anticipated with equal measures of hope and trepidation by hundreds of thousands of young people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, writes Geraint Johnes of...Read more
Students creating ‘islands of cool’ for Paris schoolyards in summer
Turning the concrete schoolyards of Paris into ‘islands of cool’ is the aim of a group of innovative young designers. The summer temperatures in the French capital mean that dozens of schools and in particular their...Read more