Apple should design parental controls to keep kids from overusing iPhones, argue two major shareholders in a Jan. 6 letter, reports Luke...

Bobby Fischer became the youngest international grand master of chess at the age of 15. Mozart composed a concerto at the age of four. By...

In The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom, journalist Helen Thorpe describes the progress of newly...

Was Emily Dickinson gay? How about Ralph Waldo Emerson? The California Board of Education has rejected two proposed middle-school...

Reading wasn’t fun for Kathleen Carroll’s eight-year-old son. As a struggling reader, he spent his days “decoding worksheets and...

To Kill a Mockingbird is back  in Biloxi schools— with parental permission — weeks after it was removed from the required eighth-grade...

Biloxi (MS) eighth-graders won’t read To Kill a Mockingbird because someone complained, said Kenny Holloway, vice president of the school...

Education technology can be a waste of teachers’ and students’ time, argue two teachers in a new book, Screen Schooled. Joe Clement and...

John Merrow’s new book, Addicted to Reform, offers a rosy and unachievable vision for public school change, writes Checker Finn. Merrow...

replace a mural, taken from And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, because three children’s authors complained about the...

Is The Cat in the Hat Racist? asks Stephen Sawchuk in Education Week. In honor of Read Across America Day, which is celebrated on the...

The 74 is running excerpts from the book. “Schools work better when their leaders have the autonomy to run their schools; when they are...

The Education of Eva Moskowitz, a memoir by Success Academy founder, describes her evolution from charter skeptic to crusader. Moskowitz...

Lord of the Flies, beloved of high school English teachers and nobody else, was turned into not-very-good movies in 1963 and again in...

Many more students are getting extra time to complete the SAT, primarily due to learning disability diagnoses.  Is the SAT still valid?,...

Students are obedient achievers in a “military-like education system driven by high-stakes testing, with teachers posting rankings in...

Her goal, she writes in Reading With Patrick, was to “teach American history through black literature.” The book “could be the most...

Bob Dylan’s Nobel speech — he gave it just in time to collect the $900,000 literature prize — pays tribute to Buddy Holly, folk music and...

Here’s a “tastefully offensive” version of a Dr. Seuss’ classic, Horton Hears a Who. #DrSeuss #Horton #ThugNotes

Educators are teaching reading wrong, argues Mark Seidenberg, a University of Wisconsin neuroscientist, in Language at the Speed of...