Students in New York City’s largest school district are so bored by the DOE’s dumbed-down math curriculum they read novels in class, parents say. Families are forced to shell out thousands of dollars ...

These four classroom shifts can make academic risk-taking feel safer, clearer, and more worthwhile for middle school students ...

One month into the school year, my math classroom is buzzing with familiar rhythms: assessments, routines and students still finding their footing. Like many teachers, I see my fifth graders return ...

With the return to school comes a return to students sitting at their desks for hours every day—and teachers’ subsequent challenge of managing those fidgeting students. There has been considerable ...

As routines for the new school year get underway, many parents are looking forward to getting to know their child’s teacher and finding out what reading and writing assignments will be coming home.

Hope Reed was seeing stark disparities a decade ago at her high school in the suburbs of Columbia, South Carolina. Nearly half the school’s students were white, but the freshman remedial math classes ...