Cur’ra McCoy is one of millions of students who missed weeks of school over the past few years. Instead, the Baltimore teen often slept in or played on her phone. She did a whole lot of nothing, for ...

For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

I was at a public hearing on a Milwaukee Public Schools proposed budget about 20 years ago where the hot subject was whether to reduce the number of painters who were employed by MPS. There were ...

(This letter was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) I'd like to respond to a recent letter by John Sorg, in which he asserted many inaccuracies about the school voucher issue ...

As the new school year starts, a wave of new laws that aim to curb distracted learning is taking effect in Indiana, Louisiana and other states. By Natasha Singer ...

This story originally appeared in the February 2025 issue of Texas Monthly as part of our public-education feature, “What Our Schools Actually Need.” Humans have been learning math for thousands of ...

In my last blog post, we looked at how to step back from worry about aspects of school life—whether yours or your child’s—and use a series of questions to clarify whether the concern is useful, ...

A kindergarten classroom at Harris Elementary has its own bathroom. The routine for a bathroom visit is posted on the door. GREENFIELD — A headache or upset stomach are typical reasons kids see the ...

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