As Reading Instruction Shifts, Absenteeism and Tardies Can Lead to Poor Outcomes Receive stories like these directly in your email inbox. Subscribe to Newsletter. Administrators at Whiteville Primary, a school that caters to students...
11 Inspiring (and Inspired) Ways Students Across America Were Welcomed Back to Class This Year This article is part of a series on that highlights the champions, triumphs, success stories, and acts of kindness...
In order to prevent current efforts to raise student achievement from falling short, states need to act quickly to bridge the gap between academic standards and their use in classrooms. This was the main...
Thomas Hehir, the current director of the office of special education programs at the U.S. Department of Education, has had a long and successful career in the field of education. He began as a...
Partial funding for this story was provided by the Ford Foundation, which supports the coverage of the evolving definition of public schooling. Progress is scarce in this area, plagued with boarded-up houses and abandoned...
At a little past 9 a.m. on a Monday morning, Lori Smith, the associate principal at John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Kingsport, received a text from her sister, who works as the instructional...
Alaska is not participating in the federal Race to the Top program, unlike many other states. The state could potentially compete for grants worth up to $75 million, but the Education Commissioner, Larry LeDoux,...
Why should an intellectual leave the safety of academia and enter the unpredictable world of public political discussions? Jacqueline Rose, a private professor of English Literature at Queen Mary’s College London, has taken this...
Charles Hannam, my late friend, was an influential author and a charismatic teacher. He was born Karl Hirschland into a Jewish banking family in Essen, Germany. However, the rise of the Nazis slowly eroded...