School & Teaching

Ruth Miskin, pioneering education hero or entrepreneur with undue influence over Government thinking?

It is 10 years since I l...

With more states embracing charters and school choice, the decisions that parents have to make about their children’s education...

Understanding numbers, the quantities those numbers represent, and low-level arithmetic by the end of first grade are key to bet...

The brain’s real super-food may be learning new languages.

On a sweltering August morning, in a classroom overlooking New York...

Should a young child getting ready for school be placed in kindergarten, or a developmental kindergarten program?

It’s a quest...

“I just don’t have the energy at the end of the work day to crack the books with my kid. Isn’t that what we pay teachers to do?