School & Teaching

Having consistently good teachers in elementary school appears to be as important for student achievement as small class sizes, ...

The American ideal of lazy summers filled with fun has an unintended consequence: If students are not engaged in learning over t...

Marathoners would never dream of taking a two-month break from training right before a race. Nor would musicians before a concer...

Critics of ISTEP caution that educators are teaching to the test, which is to say, they are restricting classroom instruction to...

Children who regularly participated in a Simon Says-type game designed to improve self-regulation – called the Head-Toes-Knees-S...

Janet French, a recently retired pre-kindergarten teacher, understands the importance of preparing 3- to 5-year-olds for kinderg...