School & Teaching

Summer dip, summer slide – call it what you want.  The research is compelling enough to cause concern. Most students will experi...

Thousands of first-year students at Ontario community colleges are taking catch-up courses in basic math skills — fractions, dec...

Middle-class children hear 33 million words by the time they start school – 23 million more than poorer children of the same age...

Children are wrongly being diagnosed as suffering from special needs to cover for poor parenting and “failure at school”, expert...

I was at the gym a few days ago, and I picked up a copy of Maclean’s magazine to read on the treadmill. What caught my eye was a...

In the American drive to boost science and math education, it’s science that has all the kid-friendly sizzle: Robots and roller...