A new bill would require schools to screen all kindergartners, first- and second-graders for basic math skills. The idea is to help those children catch up to their peers who might have had much more ...

A new guide from the Center on Reinventing Public Education’s explains the divisions shaping the “science of math” — as well ...

Two new initiatives are evaluating preschool curricula, making the case that programs designed to teach the youngest learners ...

From Smiley v. Jenner, decided yesterday by Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder, joined by Judges Candace Jackson-Akiwumi and Doris ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Teacher stories and memories of kindness have a way of staying with you long after the last bell. The best educators are not ...

This year, I have chosen to focus on “institutional” lessons we can learn from these results, rather than individual ...

How many children in the United States have to drown before the other 49 states follow Louisiana’s lead? Five children have ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

In my 30 years in education, I have never seen a more ill-advised and damaging cut to education funding,” said Washington’s ...

Reading gains raise uncomfortable questions for Michigan, which spends nearly $10,000 more per student and gets worse results ...

A Burlington High School graduate has been selected as the new principal of Sunnyside Elementary School. On July 1, Marissa ...