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Minecraft Education is a game-based platform that inspires creative and inclusive learning through play. Explore blocky worlds that unlock new ways to tackle any subject or challenge. Dive into subjects like reading, math, history, and coding with lessons and standardized curriculum designed for all types of learners. Or explore and build together in creative open worlds.

Use it your way : with hundreds of ready-to-teach lessons, creative challenges, and blank canvas worlds, there are lots of ways to make Minecraft Education work for your students. It's easy to get started, no gaming experience necessary.

Prepare students for the future : learners develop key skills like problem solving, collaboration, digital citizenship, and critical thinking to help them thrive now and in the future workplace. Spark a passion for STEM.

Game based learning : unlock creativity and deep learning with immersive content created with partners including BBC Earth, NASA, and the Nobel Peace Center. Inspire students to engage in real-world topics, with culturally relevant lessons and build challenges. 

Minecraft Education key features

• Multiplayer mode enables collaboration in-game across platforms, devices, and hybrid environments 
• Code Builder supports block-based coding, JavaScript, and Python with intuitive interface and in-game execution 
• Immersive Reader helps players read and translate text 
• Camera and Book & Quill items allow documentation and export of in-game creations 
• Integration with Microsoft Teams and Flipgrid supports assessment and teacher controls 

Try or purchase Minecraft Education

Users in a Microsoft-verified academic organization with Microsoft 365 accounts have access to a free trial for Minecraft Education. This grants faculty accounts 25 free logins, and student accounts 10 free logins before a paid license is required to continue playing. Users in non-Microsoft-verified academic organizations have 10 free logins.

Organizations can purchase subscriptions directly in the  Microsoft 365 admin center , via volume licensing agreements, or through partner resellers.

When you sign up for a Minecraft Education trial, or purchase a subscription, Minecraft Education licenses are linked to your Microsoft Entra tenant. If you don't have a Microsoft Entra tenant:

• Microsoft-verified academic organizations can set up a free Office 365 Education subscription , which includes a Microsoft Entra tenant
• Non-Microsoft-verified academic organizations can set up a free Microsoft Entra tenant when they purchase Minecraft Education commercial licenses

Direct purchase

To purchase direct licenses:

• Go to https://education.minecraft.net/licensing
• Under Direct Purchase , select Buy Now
• Sign in to the Admin Center purchase page with an account that has Billing Admin privileges in your organization
• If necessary, fill in any requested organization or payment information
• Select the quantity of licenses you'd like to purchase and select Place Order
• After you've purchased licenses, you'll need to assign Minecraft Education licenses to your users

If you need more licenses for Minecraft Education, see Buy or remove subscription licenses .

Volume licensing

Qualified education institutions can purchase Minecraft Education licenses through their Microsoft channel partner. Schools need to be part of the Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) volume licensing program. Educational institutions should work with their channel partner to determine which Minecraft Education licensing offer is best for their institution. The process looks like this:

• Your channel partner will submit and process your volume license order
• Your licenses will show on Volume Licensing Service Center

Payment options

You can pay for Minecraft Education with a debit or credit card, or with an invoice.

Debit or credit cards

During the purchase, select Add a new payment method . Provide the information needed for your debit or credit card.

Invoices are a supported payment method for Minecraft Education. There are a few requirements:

• $500 invoice minimum for your initial purchase
• $15,000 invoice maximum (for all invoices within your organization)

To pay with an invoice:

• During the purchase, select Add a new payment method.
• Select the Invoice option, and provide the information needed for an invoice. The PO number item allows you to add a tracking number or info that is meaningful to your organization.

For more information about invoices and how to pay by invoice, see Payment options for your Microsoft subscription .

Assign Minecraft Education licenses

You can assign and manage Minecraft Education licenses from the Microsoft 365 admin center. You must be a Global , License , or User admin to assign licenses. For more information, see About Microsoft 365 admin roles .

• Go to https://admin.microsoft.com and sign in with an account that can assign licenses in your organization
• From the left-hand menu in Microsoft Admin Center, select Users
• From the Users list, select the users you want to add or remove for Minecraft Education access

If you add a faculty license, the user will be assigned a teacher role in the application and will have elevated permissions.

If you turn off this setting after students have been using Minecraft Education, they will have up to 30 more days to use Minecraft Education before they don't have access

For more information about license assignment, see Manage Licenses in the Admin Center .

Distribute Minecraft Education

There are different ways to install Minecraft Education on Windows devices. You can manually install the app on each device, or you can use a deployment tool to distribute the app to multiple devices. If you're using Microsoft Intune to manage your devices, follow these steps to deploy Minecraft Education:

• Go to the Microsoft Intune admin center
• Select Apps > Windows > Add
• Under App type , select Microsoft Store app (new) and choose Select
• Select Search the Microsoft Store app (new) and search for Minecraft Education
• Select the app and choose Select
• System means install for all users (recommended for most scenarios)
• User means only install for the targeted user or current user of a device
• Required means that Intune installs the app without user interaction
• Available enables Minecraft Education in the Company Portal, where users can install the app on-demand
• Select Next
• On the Review + Create screen, select Create

Intune will install Minecraft Education at the next device check-in, or will make it available in Company Portal for on-demand installs.

For more information how to deploy Minecraft Education, see:

• Windows installation guide
• Chromebook installation guide
• iOS installation guide
• macOS installation guide

If you're having trouble installing the app, you can get more help on the Minecraft Education support page .

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THIS APP IS FOR SCHOOL AND ORGANIZATIONAL USE. Minecraft Education is a game-based platform that inspires creative, inclusive learning through play. Explore blocky worlds that unlock new ways to tackle any subject or challenge. Dive into subjects like reading, math, history, and coding with lessons and standardized curriculum designed for all types of learners. Or explore and build together in creative open worlds. USE IT YOUR WAY With hundreds of ready-to-teach lessons, creative challenges, and blank canvas worlds, there are lots of ways to make Minecraft Education work for your students. It’s easy to get started, no gaming experience necessary. PREPARE STUDENTS FOR THE FUTURE Help learners develop key key skills like problem solving, collaboration, digital citizenship, and critical thinking to help students them thrive now and in the future workplace. Spark a passion for STEM. GAME-BASED LEARNING Unlock creativity and deep learning with immersive content created with partners including BBC Earth, NASA, and the Nobel Peace Center. Inspire students to engage in real-world topics with culturally relevant lessons and build challenges. KEY FEATURES  - Multiplayer mode enables collaboration in-game across platforms, devices, and hybrid environments - Code Builder supports block-based coding, JavaScript, and Python with intuitive interface and in-game execution - Immersive Reader helps players read and translate text  - Camera and Book & Quill items allow documentation and export of in-game-creations - Integration with Microsoft Teams and Flipgrid supports assessment and teacher controls Minecraft Education licenses can be purchased with Admin access to a Microsoft 365 Admin Center account. Talk to your Tech Lead for information on academic licensing. Terms of use: The terms that apply to this download are the terms that were presented when you purchased your Minecraft Education subscription. If you subscribe to Minecraft Education via iTunes: Each Minecraft Education subscription lasts one year from date of purchase. The payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. If your subscription is set to auto-renew, your account will be charged within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the subscription price option you previously selected. Turn off auto-renewal by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. If you cancel after your subscription has activated, your account will not be refunded for the remaining active period of the subscription. Privacy policy: https://aka.ms/privacy

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Minecraft education edition is a very good game but, whenever I try to join my sisters game it says unable to connect outdated server, overall Minecraft education edition is an awesome gameCan anybody figure out what’s wrong with mine Minecraft whenever I try to make my sister join my world is says unable to connect but it doesn’t say outdated server it’s probably because she’s using her Computer that the school gave her from 2020 maybe that’s why it says outdated server because there is no online school for my school anymore if you have any ideas on how to get us to join into the same server please help because it was mean a lot also it might be because i use my iPad to play it and she has the district computer so please help it would mean a lot because my sister has been waiting a long time to play with me she has been waiting a couple of hours because she had to find a charger and then she had to wait for it to charge and I don’t wanna leave my sister out where she can’t play but I can thank you for taking your time to read this message I really hope that one of you guys respond and if you have anything similar maybe we can help out each other have a nice day/night/evening

Minecraft educational is honestly the funnest way of education. My teachers let me play it, and I join my friends servers and we try and survive in the villages we find and one time me and my friends made a small house where we decided to spawn a ton of wolves. It was hilarious, one of my friends hit a wolf and they all started attacking. It was so fun and I can admit this has the great aspects of Minecraft, and it’s free. More then a normal Minecraft player can ask for. I also am glad that this is for schools, because in school there’s barely any computer games. When the cool games are accesible, you are usually prohibited from going there since the website is blocked and you will get into trouble. But this game, you are allowed to play it and for me it’s really easy to get into it. If any teacher or school employee come across this review, please let the kids play Minecraft educational mode, it’s a fun alternative way of learning, which will also excite the students. Even if this game has some issues, it’s better then a regular tacky ripoff school game, I appreciate that, respect that and am grateful for that. I can acknowledge that Minecraft Educational isn’t perfectly performing, but at least it brings more to the table then other school-access games. It improves learning and having fun in school so much. Well, this is the end of my review, have a good, day, night, or afternoon; I wish the best of luck to everyone reading this!

Good game, but slow to update…

I love this game. Been playing it since second grade, back in the days of the good ol’ Aquatic Update. I seen this game go through many changes. I’ve spent so many hours on this game, wether I’m testing and playing new Addons or working on a new project. But one thing I do have a problem with is the updates. See I was still in 1.16 when the 1.17 update was out, and by the time 1.18 rolled around, it finally updated. This is the same for 1.19. There is already snapshots for 1.20, but I’m always wondering when Minecraft: Education Edition is going to update. I don’t know why it takes so long. I’m no expert on making games or anything but if you have the files, you could just transfer it right? Or do you have to work on coding the mobs with all the different effects of all the Education Edition items? Either way, I just wish that when you released the updates for Bedrock and Java, you could also release it for Education Edition, because after all, it’s still a version of Minecraft. But overall, I don’t want you guys to take this review negatively, but the game is still very good. I enjoy playing this because it’s free.

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Minecraft Education (formerly Minecraft: Education Edition ) is an educational edition of Minecraft specifically designed for classroom use. It is developed by Mojang Studios and Xbox Game Studios and has features that make Minecraft easy to use in a classroom setting. The full game was released on November 1, 2016. [3] There was a beta test between June 9 and November 1, 2016.

On August 20, 2018, Mojang Studios announced that it would bring Minecraft Education to iPad in Autumn 2018. [6] Microsoft stated that licensed users would be able to play starting in September. [7] It was released to the App Store on September 6, 2018.

On March 27, 2019, it was announced that Minecraft Education in China would be operated by JD.com . [8] In January 2022, the website of Minecraft Education in China was closed, and the operation by JD.com came into an end.

On June 26, 2020, an Education Edition Public Beta was made available to Google Play compatible ChromeOS devices. The full game was released on Google Play for compatible ChromeOS devices on August 7, 2020. [9]

In 2023, a preview for Minecraft Education Personal was made available to Android and Windows devices in China by Youdao . [10]

• 2 Lesson plans
• 4.1 Availability
• 5.1 Minimum software requirements
• 5.2.1 Windows, macOS, & ChromeOS
• 5.2.2 Android
• 5.2.3 iOS & iPadOS
• 7.1 Education Edition
• 8 References

Features [ ]

Minecraft Education is based on Bedrock Edition [11] and contains features that make Minecraft more accessible and effective in a classroom setting, including:

• Easy classroom collaboration: Educators have told us that one of the greatest benefits of Minecraft Education is the ability for students to collaborate to build projects and solve problems. An entire classroom of up to 30 students can play in a world together with no separate server setup required. Students can also work together in pairs or groups simply by joining their classmates' world.
• Non-player characters: An educator may create an NPC to act as a guide for students in the game, giving instruction, providing more information, and also allowing educators to insert an active web link to additional references.
• Camera + portfolio : An important aspect of teaching with Minecraft is being able to collect evidence of learning in the game, and being able to track student progression. The camera and portfolio features allow students to take screenshots of their work and document the development of their projects.
• Chalkboard s : Creators can use chalkboards to communicate learning goals, provide additional information and give explicit instructions within the game. Chalkboards come in three different sizes – (1×1), (2×1), and (2×3).
• Tutorial world: For educators or students new to Minecraft , a tutorial world is available that guides players on in-game navigation, crafting, and placing or breaking blocks.
• Allow and deny blocks: These blocks allow the educator (or a player with World Builder privileges) to place specific areas where players can or cannot build.
• Border blocks: These blocks prevent players from entering or leaving a specific area. The range of influence extends the full range of the Y coordinate from wherever the block is placed on the x & z coordinate. It is the same shape as a cobblestone wall but with a smooth, red texture and red particle effects. Note: These blocks can be bypassed using ender pearls or chorus fruit.
• Classroom mode: This is a complimentary program to Minecraft Education and allows educators a master view of the map (including the locations of all players), communicate with players via chat (and monitor the chat), and turn off/on some world settings.
• Additional item hotbar: There is a smaller hotbar with three additional slots that can be enabled for players by the educator. This smaller hotbar rests to the right-side of the main hotbar and educators can populate this hotbar with items.
• Code builder and the agent : A complimentary program to Minecraft Education that allows students to write code in a code editor and The Agent then executes the code in the program. This was a newly announced feature and was implemented in 1.0.1.
• New / ability command allows the player to modify permissions of players such as the World Builder permission, MayFly allows the player to enable/disable fly in all game modes, and mute allows the player to mute another player. Abilities are similar to gamerules, except they apply to a player rather than the entire world.
• A new immutable World gamerule, if true it prevents any players who are not teachers (or who don't have worldbuilder permissions) from breaking or placing any blocks unless they are on top of an allow block.
• World builder is an ability that can be applied to a player to allow bypassing the functions of border blocks and deny blocks.

Lesson plans [ ]

Lesson plans through Minecraft Education are available to download and are split between certain age groups and various subjects such as history, visual arts, and gaming. Additionally, educators can upload lesson plans that they have created for others to use from the main website.

Pricing [ ]

The full game costs US$ 5.04 (US$4.99 on the Apple App Store) per user per year to use, depending on school size and if qualifications for volume licensing are met. Volume pricing for school-wide deployments and large-scale academic institutions is also planned. Schools and districts that already have MinecraftEdu can get Minecraft Education for free.

It was announced on May 2, 2017, that schools and educational institutions that purchase new Windows 10 devices receive a free year of Minecraft Education . [12]

Eligibility [ ]

In order to be eligible to purchase Minecraft Education , a player must meet the following requirements ( as seen on Tech Specs ):

• An eligible educator must be a full-time or part-time faculty or staff member at an academic institution and have a school-specific email address provided by the school that can receive external email.
• An eligible district or school must be a qualified education user, defined as an accredited institution organized and operated exclusively for the purpose of teaching its enrolled students.
• An eligible public library must provide general library services without charge to all residents of a given community, district, or region.
• An eligible public museum must be an agency or institution organized on a permanent basis for essentially educational or aesthetic purposes and utilize a professional staff to exhibit tangible objects to the public on a regular basis.
• Finally, an eligible home-school program must provide K-12 education to a student or students with written proof that it either belongs to a nationally recognized home-schooling organization or is expressly recognized by a local school district as an acceptable alternative to an accredited or state-recognized/approved educational institution.

Availability [ ]

Availability of Minecraft Education

The following chart shows the country availability and language availability for Minecraft Education .

Technical requirements [ ]

Minimum technical requirements (according to System Requirements – Minecraft Education ):

Minimum software requirements [ ]

• macOS Big Sur (11)
• ChromeOS 83
• Android Oreo (8.0)

Minimum hardware requirements [ ]

Windows, macos, & chromeos [ ].

• CPU: Intel Core i3-3210 3.2 GHz / AMD A8-7600 APU 3.1 GHz or equivalent
• GPU (Integrated): Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge) or AMD Radeon R5 series (Kaveri line) with OpenGL 4.4
• GPU (Discrete): Nvidia GeForce 400 Series or AMD Radeon HD 7000 series with OpenGL 4.4
• HDD/SSD: Minimum of 1 GB for game core, maps, and other files

Android [ ]

• CPU: 32-bit or 64-bit
• Requires Android Oreo (8.0) or later
• SSD: Minimum of 1 GB for game core, maps, and other files
• Supported devices: Pixel (all models) / Most Android mobile devices

iOS & iPadOS [ ]

• iPhone 5S / iPhone SE / iPad (5 th gen) / iPad Air / iPad mini 2 / iPad Pro / iPod touch (6 th gen)

Gallery [ ]

Minecraft Education logo

Minecraft Education app icon

Minecraft Education key art

Poster showing several Minecraft Education features, such as cameras , photos , chalkboards , NPCs , agents and the code builder .

Education Edition [ ]

Minecraft: Education Edition logo

Minecraft: Education Edition Microsoft Store app icon

Minecraft: Education Edition Apple App Store app icon

Minecraft: Education Edition Google Play app icon

Minecraft: Education Edition vertical key art

Minecraft: Education Edition horizontal key art

References [ ]

• ↑ "Minecon 2015 - Day Two" – Twitch.
• ↑ Xbox Game Studios § Subsidiaries
• ↑ a b "New intelligence: Education Edition arrives Nov 1!" by Marsh Davies – Mojang.com, September 22, 2016.
• ↑ a b c d e Minecraft Education – Apps on Google Play
• ↑ Minecraft Education on the App Store
• ↑ "Minecraft Education Now Available for iPad" – education.minecraft.net.
• ↑ What's New in EDU: Minecraft: Education Edition expands to iPad - August 20. 2018
• ↑ "JD Cloud lands exclusive rights to 'Minecraft: Education Edition' in China" by Nicole Jao – TechNode, March 28, 2019.
• ↑ "Minecraft Education for Chromebook" – education.minecraft.net.
• ↑ "Minecraft Education Personal - Official Website" – meec.meta.youdaozhixue.com.
• ↑ "We'll try at first to bring them back to PE/Win10 as that's a lot easier since it's the same codebase, but of course anything we bring back should make sense for PC as well!" – u/mojang_tommo on Reddit
• ↑ "Receive one-year subscription to @playcraftlearn when purchasing a new #Windows10 device through your school #MicrosoftEdu" – @MicrosoftEDU on X, May 2, 2017
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Minecraft Education

This app is for school and organizational use. minecraft education is a game-based platform that inspires creative, inclusive learning through play. explore blocky worlds that unlock new ways to tackle any subject or challenge. dive into subjects like reading, math, history, and coding with lessons and standardized curriculum designed for all types of learners. or explore and build together in creative open worlds. use it your way with hundreds of ready-to-teach lessons, creative challenges, and blank canvas worlds, there are lots of ways to make minecraft education work for your students. it’s easy to get started, no gaming experience necessary. prepare students for the future help learners develop key skills like problem solving, collaboration, digital citizenship, and critical thinking to help students them thrive now and in the future workplace. spark a passion for stem. game-based learning unlock creativity and deep learning with immersive content created with partners including bbc earth, nasa, and the nobel peace center. inspire students to engage in real-world topics with culturally relevant lessons and build challenges. key features  - multiplayer mode enables collaboration in-game across platforms, devices, and hybrid environments - code builder supports block-based coding, javascript, and python with intuitive interface and in-game execution - immersive reader helps players read and translate text  - camera and book & quill items allow documentation and export of in-game-creations - integration with microsoft teams and flipgrid supports assessment and teacher controls minecraft education licenses can be purchased with admin access to a microsoft 365 admin center account. talk to your tech lead for information on academic licensing. terms of use: the terms that apply to this download are the terms that were presented when you purchased your minecraft education subscription. privacy policy: https://aka.ms/privacy, 10/11/2017 11:46:09 pm, gameplay may be limited without purchase of a license. https://education.minecraft.net/eula https://educationstore.microsoft.com/en-us/store/details/product/9nblggh4r2r6.

Minecraft Education Edition guide: Uses, features, requirements, and more

A special version of Minecraft for education.

• Education Edition toggle different

To most of the world, there are three different versions of Minecraft . The Java Edition is the original version, and it's available on MacOS and Windows PC's. It's known for being big, heavy, and very powerful. It supports mods , third-party tools and software, and has a huge number of hardcore players. The Bedrock Edition is the modern version, built to span across devices, platforms, and generations with a flexible and lightweight foundation. It supports multiplayer across different platforms, private servers known as Realms, and is available on way more devices. Then there are the "legacy" versions that no longer exist, like the old Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 editions.

There's actually one more version of Minecraft and that's the Education Edition. This version is built off the Bedrock Edition, building in powerful features useful for teachers and educators. This is Minecraft build for schools, libraries, museums, and more. It's not for fun, but it does make learning things like math, science, and programming fun. Here's what you need to know.

Related: Here's how to use the Education Edition for children at home due to the coronavirus

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What is Minecraft: Education Edition?

What can you do in minecraft: education edition, how is the education edition toggle different than minecraft: education edition, how do you get minecraft: education edition on your devices.

Back in 2016, Mojang announced a new project to help educators teach their students by using Minecraft as a fun and interactive tool. A little while later, Minecraft: Education Edition was born to the world, and it featured a ton of unique features and plans across a variety of curriculum subjects like architecture, math, chemistry, agriculture, and computer programming. Across all of it, Minecraft: Education Edition is focused on teaching children important critical skills like problem-solving, teamwork, and creativity.

Because the Education Edition is actually just an expanded version of the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft available on Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Windows 10, Android and iOS, it also comes with all the same features present there. However, the Education Edition isn't quite as prolific as its base version, since as of now it's only available on Windows 10, MacOS and iPad devices.

The full Minecraft: Education Edition is specifically tailored to schools, and is currently being used in over 115 countries around the globe. It is a monthly subscription service that requires a Microsoft 365 Education account and a Mojang Account, so access is limited and everyday people won't be able to take advantage unless their school allows it.

There's also a toggle present in the base Bedrock Edition of Minecraft simply labeled "Education Edition" that appears in the Create a New World menu. This toggle is available on more devices like Android phones, and anyone who owns the Bedrock Edition can use it, but isn't as powerful or complicated as the full Education Edition is. More on that toggle down below.

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Minecraft: Education Edition includes a surprising number of additional mechanics, administrative features and controls, tools for students to use, and exclusive items and resources that really drive home the focus of the game. The point of the Education Edition is to not only provide a platform in which students can learn, but also give teachers the tools they need to manage their classroom, keep everyone productive, and set the parameters for their lessons.

We'll divide the features of the Education Edition of Minecraft into three categories: items and resources, student tools, and educator tools.

Items and resources in Minecraft: Education Edition

There are a few exclusive blocks or items in Minecraft: Education Edition that aren't available in the Bedrock Edition. Some of these are tailored for use by educators, but the majority of the exclusive items revolve around the Education Edition's extensive chemistry toolset.

The items and resources in Minecraft: Education Edition are:

• Balloon. The balloon levitates when placed, and can even levitate mobs if attached.
• Underwater TNT. TNT typically doesn't work underwater. This kind does.
• Underwater torches. The thing that everyone wants is in the Education Edition—torches that work even while underwater.

There are also a load of chemistry-focused items and resources, which are:

• 118 elements and hundreds of isotopes. The periodic table exists in Minecraft: Education Edition. There are 118 elements and at least 400 stable isotopes for students to choose from.
• Element constructor. Students can create elements and isotopes here, with sliders to choose the number of electrons, protons, and neutrons their atom will have.
• Compound creator. Allows students to combine different elements into compounds. At the moment, there are over 30 compounds such as coal or soap.
• Lab table. Students can take the elements and compounds they have created to craft items like bleach, which are actually usable in the game.
• Material reducer. Where the aforementioned tables are strictly about construction, the material reducer takes Minecraft blocks and reduces them to their base elements. Since not all Minecraft blocks actually, you know, exist, there's a "?" block to represent fictional elements.

Tools and functions for students in Minecraft: Education Edition

Students can do more than just chemistry in Minecraft: Education Edition, and there are also ways for students to track their progress through lessons and challenges. Most importantly, though, is how easy it is for students to work together in Minecraft: Education Edition.

The items available for students to use are:

• Camera. A tool for students to screenshot their projects and work.
• Portfolio. A tool students can use to document their progress.

The functions and features available for students to use are:

• Classroom collaboration. Up to 30 students can work in a world at a time, without the need to set up or rent a server. Students can also work solo, in pairs, or just join their other classmates in a world. This allows educators to scale lessons as needed.
• Code connection. Allows students and educators to play in a fully functional Minecraft world solely by writing code.
• 3D exporting. One of the coolest features of Minecraft: Education Edition is the ability for students to export their projects to Remix 3D and actually build them in the real world using 3D printers.

Tools and functions for educators in Minecraft: Education Edition

A bunch of children hanging out in Minecraft without educators and teachers being able to moderate them is bound to turn into giggle-filled chaos, so of course there are a ton of tools available to help define boundaries and keep students on task. This also helps educators scale lessons and challenges as needed to fit the classroom or objective.

The items available for educators and teachers to use are:

• Chalkboard. Allows educators to outline lesson plans or instructions in game, with various sizes available.
• Allow/deny blocks. Allows educators to specifiy areas where players (students) can build. Allow blocks mean building is allowed, while deny blocks mean, well, the opposite.
• Border blocks. This allows educators to define set areas in which students can roam.

The functions available for educators and teachers to use are:

• Tutorials. Minecraft: Education Edition is quite complicated, and can be very harrowing to the uninitiated. There are tutorial worlds available to both educators and students that teach how to use their respective functions, and the different things you can do in Minecraft: Education Edition.
• Lessons. A very important aspect of Minecraft: Education Edition are the lessons. There are a huge number of lessons available from Mojang's website that are organized by subject and age group. Teachers can also upload their own lessons for other users to access from the website.
• Challenges. In the same vein as lessons, challenges focus less on teaching about a specific structure and more on collaboration and cooperation. Students must work together to accomplish specific tasks. These can range from puzzles, building projects, cartography and much more. These are also available from Mojang's website.
• Classroom mode. This is a master overview of the entire Minecraft world that allows an educator to see where everyone is at, communicate with players, and edit various settings for the world.
• Additional item hotbar. Teachers can equip their students with an additional item hotbar to give them three more items then they could normally carry. Teachers can also populate that hotbar with whatever items they want. This hotbar is vertical to and to the side of the normal hotbar.
• NPC's. Educators can actually design custom NPC's that can act as guide of af sort for students, and can provide additional information, including links to external references.
• Admin commands. Much like commands in vanilla Minecraft, these new admin commands control certain functions of the world. Educators can give players ability to build even when in deny areas, to leave bordered areas, and a whole lot more.

Something that isn't immediately obvious to anyone, myself included, is how Minecraft: Education Edition is actually a fully separated experience from the Bedrock Edition, and how that "Education Edition" toggle you might've noticed when creating a new world in Minecraft doesn't actually enable the full Education Edtion. The reason behind this is simple: unless you're an educator or a student being taught by an educator with access to Minecraft: Education Edition, it might as well not exist for you.

The toggle in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is completely free, but it doesn't unlock all of the features. Instead, this toggle turns on the chemistry features for the Bedrock Edition. This means the elements, isotopes, compounds, and all the tables associated with them. The tutorial maps, admin controls, exclusive blocks and items, and some of the lesson plans and challenges can only be used if you have access to the full Education Edition.

That's not to say the toggle is useless. If you have a child you want to stay productive at home, or if they're staying home for some reason, the toggle still gives you and your child all the chemistry-focused features. If you're child isn't into chemistry (or like mine, is just too young), you can still combine the Bedrock Edition with the many, many lesson plans and challenges available on Mojang's Education Edition website . They'll just be a little more hands-on then if you had access to those admin controls and features.

So it's clear that Minecraft: Education Edition has been designed from the ground up to be very good at what it does. Their Twitter account is full of stories from students and teachers who have used the game for learning. How do you gain the same benefits from Minecraft: Education Edition? There are two different ways, depending on who are you or where you're coming from. Let's go over both.

If you're an educator or student and want Minecraft: Education Edition

The full Minecraft: Education Edition is strictly education, so it has similar requirements that, say, an enterprise-only service would have. There's not a how-to on getting Minecraft: Education Edition, because it depends a lot on who you are. If you're an educator, talk to your admin about using the game for your classroom. If you're a student, talk to your educator.

The requirements for Minecraft: Eduation Edition are:

• You must have a Microsoft 365 Education Account and a Mojang Account in order to sign in.
• You must have either a Windows 10 PC, a MacOS computer, or an iPad running iOS 9 or later.
• If you are an educator, you must be a full-time employee of an educational institution, and have a work-related email provided by the institution.
• If you are an educational institution, you must be operating in an official capacity as an accredited educational institution with the intention to teach its students.
• If you are a home-schooled program, you must be officially recognized by a national organization or local educational institution.
• If you are a library, you must grant free and public access to library services in your community or region.
• If you are a museum, you must be an institution focused on educational purposes, or have permanent professional staff related to an educational program.
• There is typically a subscription cost per user per year, but this can change depending on the volume of the subscription required by the institution, educator, or organization.

As you can see, these requirements are pretty set in stone, and don't give a lot of leeway for everyday people to gain access. That's why the "Education Edition" toggle exists in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, which is available to everyone.

If you don't have access to the full game but still want some of the benefits

If none of the above requirements describe you, you're probably like me or many other people: an average person with no official educational capacity, but either wants to learn, or has someone else (like a child,) to teach. That's okay, Mojang included a toggle in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition that enables the Education Edition's chemistry features, and they made all the lesson plans and challenges on their website accessible to anyone.

To enable these features for yourself, do the following:

• Create a new world in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. We have a guide that goes over everything you need to know about this.
• When creating your world, set the world type to "Creative." While you can do this in Survival, it doesn't make much sense, as you won't have any of the features you're enabling.

• Scroll down until you see the "Activate Cheats" toggle. Go ahead and flip this on. Minecraft will ask you to confirm, which you'll want to do.
• Right below that will be the "Education Edition" toggle. Go ahead and flip that one on too. This will enable the chemistry focused features for Minecraft.
• Create your world. Once you've loaded in, you can find the chemistry features near the bottom of the Creative inventory screen.

Now you can use all the lesson plans and challenges available on Mojang's website to help you out. Unforunately there will be a learning curve, since you won't have any of the tutorial worlds, and not all the lesson plans or challenges will work (like any of the coding plans). Otherwise, you basically have free reign over whatever you want to do! This is a great tool if you want to be more hands-on with your child's learning, and still try to keep it fun.

A fun way to learn

The Education Edition turns Minecraft from an expansive creative sandbox to an interactive learning environment. Teachers can monitor progress and assign lessons while students can work together as a classroom, in groups, or individually to accomplish goals while learning more about various subjects. While most people probably won't ever come in contact with it, it's awesome that Mojang and Microsoft are working to have a more engaging presence in classrooms.

That's not to say the Education Edition has nothing to offer to normal people. Using the Education Edition toggle in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition gives you access to a whole host of chemistry-focused features, and the lesson plans and activities for Minecraft: Education Edition are free to access for everyone. Using this, it's not hard to make sure your children can have fun and stay productive wherever they are.

Have you used Minecraft: Education Edition before? Do you think this is a good tool to help children learn? Let us know in the comments below!

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I love that you can open up Minecraft Education Edition, ask yourself “What do I want to learn today?” and find something. This is just another way that the power of Minecraft and what’s been built to support Education Edition shines. When you take the best selling game ever, engage passionate people to create amazing content, and then put that content in the hands of students, you have  - in my opinion - the most powerful tool for teaching and learning that exists. I didn’t know what to expect when I spoke to Sarah Red-Laird from Bee Girl. The bee content in the game is great, but as you’ll hear, Bee Girl took it and turned it into something with meaningful learning experiences for every student.

Bee Girl Organization:  https://www.beegirl.org/

• Sarah Red-Laird on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/SarahBeeGirl

Join the Minecraft Education Challenge! This virtual build challenge invites students around the world to learn about issues related to sustainability and inclusion, then design solutions with Minecraft: Education Edition.

Create your own prompt that invites students to address a local issue impacting your school, community or region. This could be something like designing a more accessible version of your classroom in Minecraft. Think about people with different learning styles and disabilities, so the space is a safe and inspiring environment for everyone to be healthy. 

Or build a more sustainable version of your school in Minecraft. Consider a holistic definition of sustainability, which may involve rethinking energy systems, recycling, transportation, and how nature plays a role.

Share progress and stories of your Challenge experience via Twitter and Facebook, and tag us using our Twitter handle @PlayCraftLearn and the hashtag #MinecraftChallenge, and then post your results on the Minecraft Challenge Flipgrid page.

There is, within Minecraft, an incredible opportunity to build an immersive world and bring it to life with animals, plants and trees and even NPC’s with diologue. I would challenge every educator out there to think big. Imagine the worlds you would want to build for your students, and then go and do it. I have little doubt Minecraft will help your vision come alive.

On today’s show… Esports is exploding in popularity all over the world. We’re going to talk about how educators are using esports to engage students and how you can use Minecraft Education Edition to do that. Two groups playing a big part in how the future of academic esports unfolds are Liminal Esports, and Stephen Reid and Immersive Minds. I spoke to them both about their work in academic esports.

• Explore Esports with New Minecraft: Education Edition Lessons and Teaching Guide: https://education.minecraft.net/blog/explore-esports-with-new-minecraft-education-edition-lessons-and-teaching-guide
• Bring esports to your classroom with new Minecraft: Education Edition esports worlds, lesson plans and an educator framework created by Immersive Minds: https://education.minecraft.net/stem-esports-challenges
• With Minecraft: Education Edition, Microsoft Looks To Blend Esports And EDU: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2020/06/29/with-minecraft-education-edition-microsoft-looks-to-blend-esports-and-edu/?fbclid=IwAR0NIN4pIj448ak4mzMGVgs48ylNuvVuBSrNDiVYeHJVi5jqLBh4jB4u7DU#42394e1b5138

On today’s show… There is, within Minecraft, an incredible opportunity to build an immersive world and bring it to life with animals, plants and trees and even NPC’s with dialogue. I would challenge every educator out there to think big. Imagine the worlds you would want to build for your students, and then go and do it. I have little doubt Minecraft will help your vision come alive.

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• NPC’s, Signs, Boards, Posters, the Book and Quill, and Camera - these are just some of the amazing tools built right into Minecraft. There are dozens of resources available on the Minecraft Education Edition website to help you get started telling amazing stories and building immersive worlds. Visit education.minecraft.net today to learn more.

On today’s show… I spoke to Whetu Paitai about his beautiful Nga Motu world. We talked about world building in Minecraft and how an immersive world can be used as a powerful tool for students to make connections to their culture and history.

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• The Custom Content Creation Kit is designed to provide instructional designers and curriculum directors with a framework to design and plan customized instruction with Minecraft: Education Edition. It includes best practices for developing custom Minecraft curriculum, information about recommended Minecraft build partners, lesson templates, rubrics and other supporting materials for getting the job done. https://aka.ms/meecustomcontent

On today’s show… We can talk about engagement, and how much, quote - unquote “fun” our students are having all day, but in the end we need to be able to tie using Minecraft to achievement and demonstrating results. We need to make the case. This episode, we’ll talk to Merry Hofmeister about how her district made the decision to use Minecraft, how they brought it on board, and how it was received.

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Twitter : https://twitter.com/TheMerryHof

• Educators around the world use Minecraft: Education Edition to engage students across subjects. Learn how Minecraft ignites learning in K-12 and higher education. https://education.minecraft.net/impact/

On today’s show… Minecraft is a powerful tool for learning, and language learning is where that power really shines. We’re going to talk about how Minecraft can be used to help you deliver amazing language learning lessons.  You can build a world, craft a story and then live in that world while you learn. We’re not just talking English either. We’ll talk to Glen Irvin this week about how he used Minecraft in his Spanish language classes to provide that same deep, meaningful experience.

Twitter : https://twitter.com/irvspanish

• NPCs are humanoid characters in Minecraft that can be used to provide ambiance, fun interactions and communications related to lessons, directions or dialogue. To create NPCs, open your inventory (type E) and add a Spawn Egg to your inventory. Place the Spawn Egg to create an NPC. To program an NPC, right click the NPC to bring up the customize screen. In this screen, you can change the name, displayed text and skin. You can add URLs and special commands in Advanced Settings. World Builders can re-access this menu repeatedly to edit it. The name of the NPC will remain visible from a distance, even through walls. When an Operator or non-World Builder right clicks on an NPC, they will see the displayed text. For more information visit our Minecraft: Education Edition knowledge base.
• Using Minecraft in ESL with young learners: https://education.minecraft.net/blog/using-minecraft-in-esl-with-young-learners
• Minecraft: Education Edition for English Language Learners: https://education.minecraft.net/blog/minecraft-education-edition-for-english-language-learners

On today’s show… We know Minecraft can be used for building, and you’ve heard on previous episodes about how educators are using it to help students make connections around the world. We’ve talked about building great lessons too. Did you know you can also code with Minecraft?! We’ll be talking to Steve Isaacs about that and more.

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Twitter : https://twitter.com/mr_isaacs

• Hour of Code is an easy way to take your first steps in coding. It is 100% self directed, and anyone can do it with no prior knowledge of coding. https://education.minecraft.net/hour-of-code
• If you’ve already done the Hour of Code, we have a new set of extension activities that pick up where the fun left off. Code Town is part 2 which picks things up right where students left off. Find it under Computer Science in the Minecraft: Education Edition Library or on the web: https://education.minecraft.net/lessons/minecraft-code-town/
• If you’re an educator looking to teach coding to your students we offer over 50 hours of coding curriculum that is based on CSTA standards on our web site. Computing with Minecraft is for beginners and Coding with Minecraft covers topics such as conditionals, functions, and coordinates. Both courses are free to download in OneNote. https://education.minecraft.net/class-resources/computer-science-subject-kit/
• Educators who want to learn more about coding in M:EE can take the Building Blocks of Code online professional development course on the Microsoft Educator Center: https://education.microsoft.com/en-us/course/7dd3d540/overview

On this episode of the Minecraft Education Edition podcast we’re talking lessons! We’ll talk to two amazing educators and get their best advice on how to build great lessons. We’ll also share some resources so you can get started yourself. Our guest(s) this week are Ben Spieldenner and Trish Cloud.

Ben Spieldenner

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Website : https://www.crosspond.net/

Trish Cloud

Twitter : https://twitter.com/trishcloud

• Check out the Minecraft Library in the game and on the web at aka.ms/minecraftlibrary
• You Can Create Lessons In Minecraft: Education Edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uuJxSjmiao
• There's even a lesson about how to create a Minecraft lesson, created by a member of the teacher community: https://education.minecraft.net/lessons/teacher-training-basic/

Share progress and stories of your Challenge experience via Twitter and Facebook, and tag us using our Twitter handle @PlayCraftLearn and the hashtag #MinecraftChallenge, and then post your results on the Minecraft Challenge Flipgrid page.

Minecraft isn’t just a game you play on your own, it’s a powerful tool to make connections with students and teachers all over the world! On today’s show, we’ll talk about how one teacher, Benjamin Kelly from Canada, uses Minecraft in his classroom and works with educators around the world to teach students about the sustainable development goals.

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Website: http://www.bbtnb.com/

• Check out the Minecraft multiplayer guide to learn how you can bring students together whether they’re across the room, across town, or on different sides of the planet. Visit  aka.ms/multiplayerguide to learn more.
• To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, energize your students with new Minecraft worlds and lessons created by EIT InnoEnergy and Blockworks! https://education.minecraft.net/earth-day
• In partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF), we bring you a new interactive curriculum now available for all Minecraft: Education Edition users, called Extinction! A Biodiversity Crisis. https://education.minecraft.net/blog/we-teamed-up-with-world-wildlife-fund-for-an-interactive-science-curriculum-on-biodiversity/
• Explore two years worth of Sustainable Development Goals solutions from students of all ages around the world. Then, have your students add solutions! https://education.minecraft.net/lessons/the-sustainability-shuffle/
• There are a number of schools holding events in Minecraft (graduations, proms, etc.). Learn how to hold an event in Minecraft here: https://minecrafteducation.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042923551-Hold-a-Digital-Event-in-Minecraft

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How NH Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut used his office in the culture war

In January 2023, New Hampshire Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut convened a private meeting in Concord to “discuss explicit materials in school libraries.” The invitation — sent to about a dozen school librarians, several parent activists and one Republican state lawmaker — said the commissioner was “looking forward to meeting with everyone for his/her input and having open and respectful dialogue.”

Stephanie Charlefour traveled about an hour from her home in southwestern New Hampshire to attend. With book bans sweeping across the country, the Westmoreland School librarian hoped the meeting would be a chance to offer context on how she and her colleagues deal with controversial titles.

“We have a core belief that no matter our personal preferences, no matter our personal beliefs, that every reader has the right to have access to books that fit them at their time of need,” Charlefour told NHPR. “And that includes teens, and that includes kids.”

But what happened that day felt more like an attack, Charlefour said.

Edelblut handed out packets of paper — stamped “confidential” — that included passages from New Hampshire’s obscenity laws and excerpts from frequently banned books, including “Gender Queer” and “Beyond Magenta: Transgender teens speak out.” The commissioner began reading controversial passages from those books aloud to the group.

At one point, Edelblut asked why he — as the state’s top education official — couldn’t decide which books are inappropriate for school libraries. And while he assured the librarians that they weren’t in danger of legal repercussions, he suggested he could enlist the help of state attorneys to remove books he deemed offensive.

“He had talked about taking those [books] over to the attorney general, to take them to court, to have them removed from every shelf in the state of New Hampshire,” according to Charlefour and another librarian who attended the meeting. (The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office declined to comment on whether Edelblut followed through on this, citing the attorney-client relationship between the office and state agencies.)

One participant, Republican Rep. John Sellers, of Bristol, says he thought the meeting’s goal was to start a working group on potential book restrictions, but the librarians wouldn’t entertain any suggestions. Betsy Harrington, of Deering, said the discussion was meant for parents like herself to feel “heard.” She has campaigned to remove books with sexual content, sometimes carrying a sign that reads “GET PORN OUT OF SCHOOLS!” Harrington said Edelblut is one of the few allies she’s found in her efforts to challenge library materials.

“I think that I’m a typical mom who would like to see an array of different things available,” Harrington said. “But I don’t want it to be grossly sexually explicit.”

The meeting Edelblut organized was a microcosm of the education culture wars playing out across the country. It was also one in a string of attempts by Edelblut to control what students are exposed to in local public schools.

New Hampshire’s education commissioner doesn’t have the power to restrict which books go on library shelves or which diversity initiatives schools implement. Those issues are largely decided by locally elected school board members.

But through interviews with nearly 40 educators, parents and political activists — and hundreds of pages of public records — New Hampshire Public Radio and APM Reports have found that Edelblut has leveraged his oversight powers to elevate grievances against the public education system and, at times, individual educators.

He’s challenged superintendents on whether certain books depicting LGBTQ protagonists, sex and sexual abuse are harming the mental health of New Hampshire’s students. And he has repeatedly directed the state’s teacher misconduct investigator — the same official responsible for looking into allegations of abuse or discrimination — to review complaints about school materials.

In recent years, Edelblut has also cautioned one superintendent against using “Indigenous People’s Day” instead of “Columbus Day” on school calendars. Another educator, who is transgender, says the commissioner’s criticism of how they discussed LGBTQ issues in class was the final straw that prompted them to leave teaching for good .

The commissioner declined to be interviewed for this story and did not respond to a detailed list of questions about the incidents NHPR documented in our reporting. An education department spokesperson instead offered a brief statement.

“Like all state agencies, the New Hampshire Department of Education often receives concerns from constituents,” the spokesperson wrote. “The Department, including Commissioner Frank Edelblut, takes all constituent concerns seriously and works to respond to their inquiries. We are committed to ensuring the safety of children and work diligently with our partners to address any and all concerns swiftly and with fairness to all involved.”

After this story published, Edelblut published an op-ed on the state education department website where he wrote, in part: 

“When I assumed this role in 2017, I committed to being 100% focused on the children. Thank God someone is looking out for the children.”

READ MORE: A trans teacher asked students about pronouns. Then the education commissioner found out.

Edelbut’s willingness to field complaints has made him a champion among those who say public schools are ignoring concerns about classroom content and policies that conflict with their beliefs. And given New Hampshire’s expansion of school choice, dissatisfied families can more easily withdraw their kids from those schools and go elsewhere.

“The biggest complaint from parents is that the school isn’t responsive,” says Drew Cline, who chairs the New Hampshire State Board of Education and runs a prominent libertarian think tank . “When you have a commissioner of education trying to make the schools more responsive, he is trying to fix what parents are complaining about so parents don’t leave.”

But some who’ve been on the receiving end of Edelblut’s inquiries say he is intimidating educators and undermining efforts to make public schools welcoming to everyone.

“In public ed, you are exposed to people from all walks of life, and people with different faiths and people with different beliefs,” says Bedford Superintendent Mike Fournier, who runs a district of more than 4,000 students. “You can either choose to take your value system and try and force that on other people, or you can decide that there are some values that we all share together, and use that as your foundation.”

‘This is a nonpartisan position’

Edelblut was tapped to lead the state education department in 2017 by his former political rival, Gov. Chris Sununu, who narrowly beat him in a Republican gubernatorial primary a few months before. The choice provoked immediate uproar among Democrats and teachers unions, who took issue with Edelblut’s political ideology and his lack of experience working in or with public schools.

As a candidate for governor in 2016, Edelblut made a name for himself as a political outsider and a favorite of social conservatives . He advocated for what he called “lowercase 'libertarian' issues of low taxes, limited government, local control of schools, personal responsibility.” His resume also includes a stint as state representative, eighteen years as founder and CEO of an international auditing firm and at least seven years on the board that raised money for Patrick Henry College, a conservative Christian college in Virginia. All seven of his children were homeschooled .

At his confirmation hearing, Edelblut pledged to keep politics out of the job .

“This is a nonpartisan position,” he said. “This is about making sure that our kids get the education that they deserve. And that will be my one hundred percent focus.”

But in the last seven years, he’s kept close ties to conservative causes in New Hampshire and beyond, partnering with organizations like PragerU and 1776 Unites on material for local students. He’s been a headliner for Republican and libertarian groups in his official capacity as education commissioner. At an October 2021 forum hosted by a group that fought against COVID-19 mitigation measures, Edelblut encouraged parents to push back against local district policies on those issues. The governor later said it was “inappropriate” for the commissioner to attend in his official capacity, “given this fringe group’s history and support of anti-government actions.”

Supporters and critics alike describe Edelblut as a populist who has responded to growing disillusionment with public institutions, particularly in the wake of the pandemic. He’s said he views parents as customers of the state’s education system, and it’s his duty to ensure they’re satisfied.

Terese Bastarache, a staunch critic of the Sununu administration, said she and other activists talk to Edelblut regularly. Bastarache rose to prominence during the pandemic for her protests around COVID-19 vaccines and later founded We The People NH , a group of “concerned and fed up Patriots” that has protested against a wide range of issues, including certain library books and drag queen story hours. While Bastarache wishes Edelblut would take more action to restrict books and other material, she said he has encouraged her to organize parents around those concerns.

“He actually in conversation said: ’I really want to fight this fight for the parents. And I just need there to be more attention brought to it so that when I go to fight the fight, I’ll have some more support,’” Bastarache told NHPR.

Edelblut also hasn’t shied away from fights over education policy at the State House. In 2021, he supported a new law that banned schools from teaching that anyone is “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.” It mirrored policies passed in Republican-led states across the country, as well as an “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping” issued by former President Donald Trump. In an op-ed, Edelblut framed the law as a way to “ensure that our students learn about the evils of racism without teaching them to be racists.”

Critics, including local teachers unions and the ACLU of New Hampshire, are suing the state over the law. They say it has a chilling effect, in part because it’s so vague that teachers don’t know what will get them in trouble.

While educators who run afoul of the law could lose their teaching credentials, none have faced formal sanctions for violating it. But the statute has led to a wave of complaints from Edelblut and others concerned about classroom content and library books. A few months after the law went into effect, a local Moms For Liberty chapter offered “$500 for the person that first successfully catches a public school teacher breaking this law.”

Investigating abuse, misconduct — and books

As Edeblut has heightened the state’s scrutiny over classroom content, he also directed the department’s misconduct investigator to pursue specific complaints against educators.

That investigator, Richard Farrell, spent 30 years with the New Hampshire State Police before moving to the education department. He’s part of the team that investigates serious allegations related to the educator code of conduct, including physical and sexual abuse of students. School officials say Farrell, who also worked briefly as a high school English teacher, is cordial and honest — but when they hear from him, they know it’s not good news.

Under Edelblut’s tenure and sometimes at his behest, Farrell has contacted superintendents about everything from Beyoncé and Childish Gambino music videos shown in a high school social studies class , to a middle school poster that said “Read Banned Books,” to a permission slip that mentioned learning about "activism” during a field trip about the Civil Rights Movement.

It’s not clear whether the education department triages the complaints that come to Farrell, or whether he contacts schools about each complaint he receives, regardless of whether it falls within his jurisdiction. Farrell has acknowledged that parents — and at times, school districts — “weaponize the code of conduct.”

“We want to stay within the bounds of the code, and weaponizing it is really a bad idea,” he said in a legislative committee hearing in 2023.

At the time, Farrell was offering testimony on a bill that would have expanded the education department’s investigative powers, including the right to subpoena educators. Department officials have encouraged it, saying it would be used as a “last resort” when dealing with uncooperative school districts. Lawmakers have twice rejected the idea.

Since 2022, NHPR has asked the state education department for more clarity on how it fields and pursues complaints about curriculum, books and potential teacher misconduct. The department said it could not give NHPR records related to any complaint that led to a formal investigation but could supply records related to complaints that fell short of that threshold. So far, the department has only fulfilled a portion of those requests.

NHPR contacted Farrell to arrange an interview, but an education department spokesperson later declined the request and said they could answer questions in writing. The department did not respond to those specific questions about how it decides which complaints merit Farrell’s attention and how Edelblut, Farrell and others in the department handle outreach to school districts.

Some school administrators argue the department’s investigations into culture war grievances distracts them from dealing with racism against students of color.

For example, in 2021, Farrell investigated complaints about a middle school social studies teacher in Weare who was using excerpts of “ Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You ,” a book by the authors Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds, in her lessons about slavery.

Jacqueline Coe, the district superintendent, fielded Farrell’s inquiries. After receiving the complaint, Coe read the book and talked to the teacher about how it fit into the broader lesson plan. She decided the excerpt provoked an important conversation and aligned with state standards.

The education department never opened a formal investigation into the social studies teacher, but Edelblut continued to highlight concerns about the book in comments to the state board of education and other public forums. He even cited the book in an op-ed as an example of material “that parents have identified as conflicting with their values.”

Coe said the state scrutiny “freaked out” the teacher — and some of her colleagues.

“We had our kindergarten teachers not want to talk about Martin Luther King Day,” she said, for fear of running afoul of the education department.

Around the same time as the commissioner’s op-ed was published , Coe and other district officials were dealing with the fallout after three teenagers wrote racist graffiti in their high school bathroom, some of it targeting a Black classmate. The students were later found to have violated New Hampshire civil rights law.

Coe said she didn’t expect to hear from the education department about that incident, since it was being handled by law enforcement. But she was struck that Edelblut was criticizing a book that grappled with racism as the school was struggling to respond to that very same problem.

“We’re dealing with racial issues and trying to increase anti-discrimination, and having that culture and climate conversation in our school,” she said. “We’re like, is the message [that] we’re not supposed to be talking about slavery?”

Defining ‘developmentally appropriate’

Edelblut has also invoked state education standards regarding “developmentally appropriate” content to question schools’ book selection policies. Educators say it’s a nebulous concept to enforce, since it’s a subjective term.

But in at least two districts, Dover and Hanover , Edelblut pressed administrators about whether specific titles are available to students, and asked them to clarify how they ensure students get a “developmentally appropriate collection of instructional resources,” as those rules require.

“As you know, there is a very serious child mental health issue that we are all concerned about and working on,” the commissioner wrote in nearly identical letters sent to both districts. “Exposure to developmentally inappropriate materials has the effect of exacerbating those mental health issues that students are struggling with.”

The department’s scrutiny of Hanover stemmed from signs promoting Banned Books Week, an annual initiative coordinated by the American Library Association, displayed in the middle school library in September 2022. But it soon escalated into what Farrell, the misconduct investigator, described in an email to school officials as a “very intense inquiry.”

Dan Richards, a critic of Hanover’s equity and inclusion curriculum, raised concerns about several of the books featured on the sign and alleged in an email to a county official that the school was “pushing gay porn and pedophilic content to children.”

“I hate the idea of banning books in school libraries, but this is a case for doing so if ever there was one,” Richards wrote in that email, which Richards also forwarded to Edelblut.

He asked Edelblut if it was possible to file a complaint against the educators responsible “for a code of conduct violation,” a sanction that could result in the loss or suspension of someone’s education license. He also contacted the Hanover police and a county commissioner, alleging violations of New Hampshire’s obscenity laws, according to that email chain, which NHPR obtained through a records request to both the state and the school district.

Richards’ children previously attended Hanover schools. By the time he sent complaints to Edelblut, he had withdrawn his kids from the district and was in the process of moving to Puerto Rico. Richards told NHPR that he remained invested in the school district, even after moving away.

“I'm from there. I'm a graduate of that school system. I still have family who lives in the district, and I still maintain a home there,” he said. “I care.”

Richards said he complained directly to the school district but didn’t remember the person’s name he contacted. Hanover Superintendent Jay Badams says the first time he heard about the complaint was through an email from Farrell.

After conducting his own inquiry, Badams told the state he was confident the middle school librarian hadn’t done anything wrong. He said some of the books highlighted in the display weren’t on the library shelves but were available through an online database. Badams also acknowledged there could be room for discussion about what books were appropriate: “Maybe we need to consider content advisories on books as we do for explicit lyrics in music,” he wrote in an email to Farrell.

Badams told NHPR he took the state’s scrutiny seriously, since educators are put on notice whenever the code of conduct comes up.

“It’s like someone’s looking at your livelihood,” Badams said. “Someone’s looking at your credential and holding that credential and making a judgment call about some behavior, or something you did or didn’t do, that could determine whether or not you can continue to do your job.”

The controversy was never fully resolved. As Badams was dealing with questions about the library display, Edelblut reached out to flag that another book with sexually explicit content, the graphic novel “Flamer,” was available in the district’s online library. Badams asked Overdrive, the private company that manages the library, to limit the book to high school students. But Farrell told a colleague in the education department that this move would not “solve Frank [Edelblut]’s problem or concerns,” according to department emails. “Flamer” is no longer available in the state’s online library, but a spokesperson for Overdrive said it couldn’t comment on who asked for it to be removed. The education department did not respond when asked if anyone within the department requested the book’s removal.

Divided beliefs, divided response

As the leader of a district that serves many conservative families, Fournier, the Bedford superintendent, said he understands the importance of ensuring that public schools support families with vastly different ideologies. He and Edelblut get along, and they even attend the same church.

“I really believe that he believes he’s doing the right thing,” Fournier said.

Over the years, Edelblut has called Fournier several times to discuss concerns raised by local families. In one case, Edelblut relayed a complaint about a picture book read aloud to elementary schoolers featuring a family with two moms. Fournier said the commissioner also reached out based on rumors about the school’s policies for transgender students, which turned out not to be true. After the second instance, he asked the commissioner to back off — and Edelblut listened.

Fournier said the commissioner’s tone was never hostile. But he said his approach erodes trust and goes against New Hampshire’s ethos of local control.

“It’s just not appropriate,” Fournier said. “Because problems are best solved at the level where the problem is.”

In Exeter, Superintendent Esther Asbell said Edelblut called in fall 2023 to relay a complaint about the district’s use of “Indigenous People’s Day” instead of “Columbus Day” on the school calendar. In this case, the person who complained to the commissioner had already tried raising concerns directly with the district — but they were unsatisfied with the school’s response. Asbell said she recalls the commissioner saying, “You might want to think about what you’re going to do, because this could cause big problems for you.”

Asbell said the calendars are usually approved by the school board without much fanfare. But she eventually met with the person who complained, and agreed to name the holiday Indigenous People’s Day/Columbus Day.

“It felt unusual that the commissioner of public education would be making a phone call about a school approval calendar,” she said.

Karen Thompson, a longtime administrator at Hinsdale School District in southwestern New Hampshire, says that a few years ago some teachers asked for guidance on how to better support LGBTQ students. So she hired a local professional development coach, who is transgender, to lead a training session.

Then Edelblut called Thompson’s superintendent.

Edelblut said several school staff complained about the upcoming training, Thompson recalled. After learning about Edelblut’s call, Thompson asked the trainer to change the workshop topic and not focus on LGBTQ students.

Thompson says when she later got on the phone with Edelblut, he told her several times that he wasn’t directing her to cancel the workshop. But she says she changed the workshop because of his inquiry.

“When the commissioner was calling you about something you’re doing that you think is right, and you’re sort of being questioned about it, you’re a little on edge,” Thompson says. “We want to make sure we’re not getting on the wrong side of anything.”

Since then, the district has never provided a required staff training on the topic. Ideally, she said, the education department should provide guidance and support to districts as they try to respond to new cultural norms.

“When somebody sits in a seat of power, such as the commissioner of education, I think it is their job to respond to the ever-changing needs of our world,” she said. “I think that’s incredibly important. How will we move our kids forward if we don’t?”

This story was produced with APM Reports as part of the  Public Media Accountability Initiative , which supports investigative reporting at local media outlets around the country.

Editor's note: This story was updated to include an excerpt of an op-ed by Commissioner Frank Edelblut that the Department of Education released after this story's publication.

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Earth Day 2024: ‘Green muscle memory’ and climate education promote behaviour change

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This year, organizers of Earth Day are calling for widespread climate education as a critical step in the fight against climate change.

A new report , released in time for global attention for Earth Day on April 22, highlights the impact of climate education on promoting behaviour change in the next generation.

Despite people’s deep connection to their local environment — whether it’s blackouts in Toronto caused by raccoons , communities gearing up for a total solar eclipse lasting only minutes, chasing northern lights or hundreds of Manitoba kids excited about ice fishing — there remains inertia in climate action.

Sparking global momentum and energy in young people can go a long way to addressing climate change now and in the near future, says Bryce Coon, author of the report and Earth Day’s director of education.

How knowledge becomes ingrained

Educators aspire to prepare learners for the global challenges of the times. Teachers have become increasingly concerned about best practices for supporting their charges as young people express anxiety about environmental futures.

In his report, Coon outlines the benefits of climate education, starting with supporting educators to impart “green muscle memory” — habits, routines and attitudes young people develop to perform eco-friendly actions repetitively and consistently. This, he notes, contributes to alleviating climate-related despair and anxiety.

Similarly, Finnish researchers use biking as an analogy to describe the process by which knowledge becomes ingrained in people’s memory. Just as all of the parts of a bike need to work together for the bike to ride smoothly, so does climate education need to draw upon many different components for climate education to effectively influence new habits. The bike model advocates ways of learning that consider knowledge, identity, emotions and world views.

Young people have come to flex their green muscle memory when they load reusable water bottles each day. That small action has become a part of the daily routine for millions of families, and when added together reduces plastic litter.

According to a 2022 survey by the Canadian charity Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF) and Leger Research Intelligence Group, Canadians have increased awareness of climate change and have become concerned about climate action.

Many believe governments should do more, including making climate education a priority. The survey received responses from 4,035 people including educators, students and parents. More than half of the survey respondents were from Ontario (25 per cent) and Québec (29 per cent).

Challenges with climate education

However, inclusion of climate education in formal school curricula has come with its own set of challenges.

In the survey, 50 per cent of educators nationally agreed that a lack of time in their course or grade to teach the topic of climate change is a barrier. Educators in Ontario reported a lack of classroom resources as a barrier when integrating climate change education within the curriculum.

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Evidence is building about the benefits of implementing and expanding climate education. A 2020 American study documented how students enrolled in a year-long university environmental education course reported pro-environmental behaviours after completing the course.

Extrapolating the impact on learners to a wider scale, the researchers argued scaling climate education had the potential to be as effective as other large-scale mitigation strategies for reducing carbon emission, like solar panels or electric vehicles.

More recently, research has demonstrated the value of how learning in climate education can lead youth to seek green choices, take green action and make green decisions. The United Nations has declared climate education “a critical agent in addressing the issue of climate change ” as climate education increases across different settings and for various age groups.

Educators finding ways

More and more educators are taking steps to find ways to teach climate education in schools. Emily Olsen, an educator and now a doctoral candidate at Penn State University, began to explore climate education in greater depth after surviving the Almeda wildfire in Oregon that claimed her fiancé’s family home.

This wildfire’s severity can most likely be attributed to drier-than-normal conditions brought on by climate change in her then-town of residence.

Due to Olsen’s lived experience, developing community resilience to the effects of climate change influences her approach to studying climate education. As an instructor for several undergraduate-level courses, Olsen focuses on equipping budding educators with the skills and knowledge to incorporate climate education in their classrooms.

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All aspects of curricula

Embedding climate education into all aspects of curricula can take a variety of approaches in and outside of the classroom .

In mainstream public education, climate education is becoming more common in Canada, but there is variation across provinces and territories. Environmental education has been packaged in different forms , including broadening school curricula with inclusion in science, but also subjects including English, math and art.

Teacher training as well as complementary programming is also being offered to meet demand.

Integrated education that taps into the “heart, head and hands” of young people can spread behaviour change at a broader level. Educators might find other opportunities, such as with climate-related challenges, experiential learning and project-based learning, all of which can have lasting impacts and promote behaviour change.

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Varsha Yaiman is 21 years old and already has more than $35,000 in debt. Not on a house, or a car, but a student loan.

Four years into her double arts/law degree, Yaiman said she and her peers find the future “truly terrifying”.

She’s among millions of Australians with student loans that will be hit by increases of more than $1,000 in June, new figures show, as calls grow for the commonwealth to act on a growing “debt spiral”.

Quarterly figures, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday, revealed inflation grew by 3.6% over the year to 31 March, in large part due to a rise in education costs, which grew by 5.9%.

The repayment of Hecs/Help loans is tied to indexation, calculated by combining the consumer price index (CPI) numbers for the four quarters to March and dividing the number by the same figure for the previous year.

It places this year’s rate at 4.8%, down from a punitive 7.1% last year but still the second highest rise in more than a decade.

It means students with an average debt of $26,494 will have their loans increased by $1,272 when indexed on 1 June, on top of a $1,758 increase last year.

Students with debts of $50,000 will face rises of $2,400, while students with $100,000 loans will be hit with a $4,800 increase. More than 335,000 students have loans in excess of $50,000, Australian Taxation Office (ATO) figures show.

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Yaiman’s debt will rise by almost $2,000.

“We’re in a cost of living crisis, I’m currently renting, I have bills to pay,” she said.

“I’ve tried to make a contribution to my student debt. Many of my peers have as well. And in reality it doesn’t even make a dent.”

The university accord final report, released in February, acknowledged Australia’s Hecs/Help system could be “fairer and simpler”, adding Australians shouldn’t be deterred from studying because of the increased burden of student loans.

It recommended the commonwealth ensured loans didn’t outpace wage growth by setting the indexation rate to whatever was lower out of the consumer price index (CPI) and wage price index (WPI), as some MPs, including Zoe Daniel, have called for .

Guardian Australia understands this is the government’s preferred solution, likely to be announced ahead of the budget.

Other suggested tweaks included reducing student contribution amounts for low-income earners, changing the timing of indexation to deduct compulsory repayments first and interrogating bank lending practices to ensure student debt had no impact on applications.

The education minister, Jason Clare, has flagged he will respond to the accord’s recommendations in the coming weeks, however his colleagues have been more vocal.

Speaking on FM radio last week, the prime minister acknowledged there was “a range of areas where we need to do much better with the younger generation … and Hecs [the higher education contribution scheme] is one of them”.

Days later, the treasurer told reporters the federal government was looking at both student debt relief and unpaid placements in the budget.

“We do acknowledge that students are under pressure and if we can afford to do something to help on that front, that’s obviously something we’ll consider as we finalise the budget,” he said.

The Greens say proposed reforms don’t go far enough, instead pushing for the commonwealth to abolish indexation altogether and increase the minimum repayment threshold to the median wage.

It is now $51,550, about $6,000 higher than the minimum wage.

Deputy Greens leader and spokesperson for education senator Mehreen Faruqi said the “alarming trajectory” of rate rises showed a “clear failure of the current system”.

“Labor refused demands from the Greens to protect students from huge debt increases last year, but there is still time to stop the massive indexation hit coming again this June.

“No more kicking the can down the road.”

The education officer of the National Union of Students, Grace Franco, said young people studying today face futures where they would spend decades paying off their debts.

“We’re set to be the most indebted generation in history,” she said.

“The Hecs system is broken. It’s impacting student’s abilities to afford houses, to start families, and to continue further education.” The shadow minister for education, Senator Sarah Henderson, said the commonwealth was “reaping dividends” from escalating student debt.

Since the Albanese Labor government entered office, debts have risen by more than 16% – equivalent to more than $12bn.

ATO data showed Australians paid a record $2.9bn in voluntary Hecs/Help repayments in the 2022–2023 financial year, up from $780m the previous year in a bid to escape indexation.

It was equivalent to a 272% increase in voluntary repayments.

“Hit by a crippling 7.1% increase in their student debts, 164,000 Australians made voluntary repayments averaging $17,636 in an attempt to pay down or pay off their debt,” Henderson said. “Minister Clare’s lack of action on student debt is abysmal.”

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