Children play at the playground of the YMCA of the East Bay’s Richmond Parkway Early Learning Center in Richmond, Calif.

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

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

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or the Nation’s Report Card, as it is known, revealed that students are underperforming in reading, with the most recent scores being the lowest ...

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 ...

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 ...

The West Shore school board policy committee meeting came to a halt almost as soon as it began. As a board member started going over the agenda on July 17, local parent Danielle Gross rose to object ...

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 ...

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First grade students sit in a Blue Ridge Elementary School classroom in Warrensville, N.C., during the first week of the school year in August. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report The ...