"When do I actually get to teach history?" asked a teacher, who left a district high school for a classical charter.

Teach teachers how to teach effectively or the robots will take over.

Teaching phonics is essential, nearly everyone agrees. But for how long? And which skills?

Teaching math works better with chalk and chalkboards, say Stanford professors. It's slower.

Inquiry-first math teaching confuses students. Fluency comes first.

Low-tech teaching shows who's confused and who's not paying attention. Students can't hide behind their screens.

Students should memorize and recite poetry. It will give them ownership of their culture -- and help think think.

Tolerating disruptive, dangerous students is unfair to their classmates and teachers.

Are simpler math standards conservative?

Melania Trump is promoting robot teachers, but few think bots will replace humans in the classroom.

Learning isn't natural. Teachers need to teach, not just "guide" or "nurture."

"I ain't saying you treated me unkind," sang Bob Dylan. "You just kinda wasted my precious time." From X: Figen posts a video of a teacher who brought a PlayStation to class to use Assassin's Creed to teach about the Industrial Revolution . This is a distraction and a waste of time, responds Tom Bennett. It gets students to expect bells and whistles. SoL in the Wild agrees it's "100% terrible." He blames constant messages to teachers to make lessons fun, fun, fun. Learning

Weak administrators, out-of-control students and disengaged parents are driving teachers to quit.

Teaching citizenship focuses on engaging students: Doing substitutes for knowing.

AI can help teachers with lessons, grading and diagnosing students' learning needs, Chinese educators believe.

There little evidence learning tech aids learning, and many complaints that it's bad for students' attention spans.

Teachers complain that parents don't teach their kids to behave, and principals don't support teachers who try to maintain order.

Most teachers assign less homework -- or none at all. Students won't do it, they say. But AI will.

Student misbehavior is way up, say kindergarten and first-grade teachers. More kids are unprepared to pay attention, cooperate and show respect to classmates and teachers.

AI -- with the right guardrails -- can help students think through ideas, a professor writes.