River Trail teacher Josh Gonzalez uses hands-on agriculture lessons and real-world learning to keep students engaged in class ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

To relieve kids from the pressure of standardized tests, elementary teacher Madeline Loring incorporates fun and ...

Children spend just 4 to 7 minutes a day in unstructured outdoor play compared to more than seven hours in front of screens, ...

NCAE is expecting thousands of educators and public education supporters to join Friday's "Kids Over Corporations" march in ...

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

When the tip and total don’t match, restaurants have to make a call. Here’s how those decisions usually play out.

Alpha School, which is pushing to open this fall in Boston, is a private, for-profit that claims children can “crush ...

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