As a teacher, I constantly wondered how to get students more engaged in my lessons. As an administrator, this question was the guiding force of my coaching. Student engagement can be tough to define ...

Building a catapult that can hit a target at one, three and five meters is a core project of Ben Smith’s engineering class. When the project is assigned, groups get to work inventing a mechanism that ...

Though I never had the words for it, I knew I was different from my peers when I was a kid. As the son of Indian immigrants, I looked for ways to push back against the pressure to assimilate and ...

Everything about Ray, from his seat choice to his body language in class, indicated that he didn’t want to be noticed. And for the first half of his 9th grade year, he did enough to pass, earning Cs ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. My classroom is ...

For anybody unfamiliar with China, it might have sounded like an odd thing to say. In the lead-up to September 10, the day recognised by the central government as Teachers’ Day, President Xi Jinping ...

The 2013-14 school year is winding to a close. (Insert applause and shouts of glee here.) For many, this is the “wrap it up” part of the year where projects are finished, grades are turned in, and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The best thing to happen to public schools was the elimination of school-sponsored prayer and Bible reading. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the 1962 Engel v ...

As we seek to prepare young people with skills for career success, Warren Buffet reminds us what makes great employees: “In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, ...