After 63 years of teaching high school math in Alexandria, Virginia, Lou Kokonis isn't planning to retire. The 91-year-old comes early to...

Struggle is supposed to be good for math students, writes Greg Ashman on Filling the Pail. Telling them how to solve problems is supposed...

Chicago Public Schools are relying on "academic interventionists" to help students catch up in reading and math, reports Mila Koumpilova...

Thousands of Tennessee children will be going to summer school -- or repeating third grade, reports Chalkbeat's Marta W. Aldrich. Sixty...

Kindergarteners learn outdoors -- including time in the "magical forest" -- for most of the school day at a school in Quebec, reports...

If Jayden was cutting school, failing classes and getting in fights, he might not want his parents to know. But his teacher wouldn't keep...

High school debate competitions no longer value debate, writes James Fishback, a debater turned debate coach, on The Free Press. Until...

A leprechaun has two pots of gold, each with 10 coins in it, plus three extra coins. How many coins does he have in all? Some...

Sarah Olufemi-Dada is graduating from her Texas high school with a diploma, an associate science and a full scholarship to Stanford,...

But, Mom, everyone else has a smartphone. Parents are trying to say "no" to smartphones for elementary and middle schoolers, but it's...

Social media is endangering the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents, warns Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in a 19-page...

Only 6 percent of eighth-graders can read Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech and identify two ideas from the Constitution or...

U.S. history textbooks don't include much about Latino Americans, concludes a report by Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and...

Test scores are out. Everyone's got an A average. The "community service" trip to Mexico and the start-your-own-charity gambit are...

Roblox is going to school, reports Benjamin Herold in Education Week. The popular gaming platform is adding immersive online “learning...

At what age did you get your first smartphone or tablet? The younger the age of getting the first smartphone, the worse the mental...

Elementary students don't learn more from a teacher who matches them in race or ethnicity, concludes a new study. There is little...

Sometimes students misbehave -- not because their needs haven't been met or their teachers aren't sufficiently sensitive to their culture...

Teachers on Reddit are sharing horror stories of their students' emotional, social and academic melt downs, screen addictions and apathy....

The American education system has turned away from academics and lost its way, says David Steiner, executive director of the Institute...