School & Teaching

Occupy Wall Street is shining a useful spotlight on one of America’s central challenges, the inequality that leaves the richest...

China’s education performance – at least in cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong – seems to be as spectacular as the country’s ...

Recently, yet another parent discussed with me the possibility of medicating her child for ADHD. As an educator, I continually f...

Take two kids, one from a low-income family, the other middle class. Let them run around and do little-kid things in their respe...

Dear Editor,

Re. ‘Drill and kill’ no way to teach math in 2011 (Sept. 22). It is extremely disturbing to see the negative te...

Sam Wang is an associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton. Sandra Aamodt is a former editor in chief...