Teaching knowledge and vocabulary helps students learn, but education professors prefer "engagement" to learning.

Why settle for 21st-century edubabble when you can sell 22nd-century skills?

New York is telling teachers to adopt trendy math ideas that failed in California.

The NEA's online courses favor progressive fads over teaching.

As teachers try to get students to "sit down, focus and learn," researchers priorities are equity, justice and identity.

Achievers need challenging academics -- not just "enrichment" activities.

Twenty percent of high school graduates have trouble reading anything more complex than a restaurant menu.

Should New York City schools phase out classes for gifted elementary students?

At a well-respected graduate school of education, a former engineer learned about equity, culture and identity, but very little about how to teach math.

Education reforms are working in the South, and they can work in blue states too, if there's political leadership.

Effort matters.

Money earned by people who were very, very good at math is being spent to promote anti-racist, justice-infused not-very-mathy math.

Teachers don't like grading "reforms" that lower expectations.

Calling every student a "genius" -- even if they're not learning - - obscures failure for students and their teachers.

"No excuses" charters were closing achievement gaps, until "equity" crusaders persuaded them to lower academic and behavioral expectations.

"De-laning" -- dropping honors classes at Silicon Valley high schools -- is "an assault on excellence," tweets liberal Democratic congressman in California.

What if a school provided help with parenting, health and wellness and social services? A Zuckerberg-funded experiment is closing, an apparent failure.

Schools should discipline students who misbehave without regard to their race, says Trump's new executive order.

Seattle is closing special schools for advanced students -- and losing students to private schools.

Columbia researchers say they're losing federal grants for DEI language that they were required to add by the Biden administration.