Rural school closures are a growing trend, and Vermont, like many states, has recently proposed merging school districts to ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...

She eventually encountered Pamm Shaw, who created one of the first early educator apprenticeship programs in the country for ...

Too often, Black children are labeled as needing “skills development” after they receive low test scores. But such labels ...

About six years ago, an apprentice training to be a machinist in Washington state told her supervisor she would probably have to drop out of the training program after having her baby: She couldn’t ...

Third grade students at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering build a paper parachute for an egg drop exercise. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

First grade teacher Emily VanDerhoff, who is also a member of the Fairfax County NAACP’s education committee, was incorporating phonics into her lessons before Fairfax County renewed its focus on how ...

Even after seeing a video of this Maryland first grader, injured when he was secluded in a small room at school, state lawmakers were reluctant to ban the practice. Credit: Photo illustration: The ...

Petrina Miller, along with other teachers, works with kindergarteners in her class at 116th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles. Miller said she often has to spend her own money to make the ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

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