This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. John Dewey High School senior Jayla Mallette had an unusual request for her teacher after 9 p.m.

Harpool Middle School kids aren't just playing -- they're learning to code using the popular Minecraft game in an after-school code club in Denton ISD. There’s a new after-school club in the Denton ...

A Swedish school has made headlines, first at home and then abroad, by making super-popular build-em-up video game Minecraft compulsory for students aged 13. Video games don't have to teach reading, ...

This article emerges from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies and their effects on policy and society. On ...