Efforts to use the tech to customize lessons to students' individual interest demonstrate its potential—and the shortcomings.

When I taught middle school math, some of my worst days as a teacher were spent sitting at an uncomfortable cafeteria table, watching someone slog through a PowerPoint about strategies for classroom ...

Her students can, for the most part, understand the concepts she’s trying to teach. They can memorize and use the Pythagorean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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