Students don't need to learn facts, educators have been saying since the Cro-Magnon first learned to search the Internet. "They can just...

"If we really want to narrow gaps and make up for pandemic-related learning loss, we need to change what and how we teach -- especially...

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...

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

New York City's public schools have been teaching reading badly for decades, ignoring research on how children learn to read, said...

Civic activism can't be required in Texas public schools if it requires communicating with federal, state or local officials, reports...

The more students know about the world, the better they can understand what they read, writes Susan Pimentel in Education Week. The...

Eighth-graders don't know much about U.S. history and civics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which...

States are dropping licensing tests to qualify more teachers, write Hannah Putnam and Heather Peske of the National Council on Teacher...

Teaching knowledge is not just for Republicans or conservatives, writes Natalie Wexler on Minding the Gap. Anyone who values equity...

Teaching phonics is a critical first step in teaching reading, but students need to build knowledge and vocabulary to get from fat cats...

"Chatty Chick chats in church" in a poem used by reading tutors. Last year, the second grader I was tutoring was shocked at Chatty...

"Fixating on activism misses the point of civics education," write Frederick M. Hess, a former civics teacher now education policy...

Liberal educators aren't making the case for liberal arts education, writes John Agresto, former president of St. John's College in Santa...

Memphis high schools are teaching reading skills to teenagers who didn't learn to read well in the early grades, reports Sarah Mervosh in...

Once students can sound out words, the next step is teaching comprehension, writes Matt Bardin on The 74. Once a middle and high school...

There's no need to "decolonise" math, writes John Armstrong in The Spectator. He's published an open letter criticizing a proposal...

I learned about separation of powers, checks and balances and the three separate and equal branches of government -- executive,...

The mainstream media has declared a victor in the "reading wars," writes Robert Pondiscio. Both TIME and The New Yorker had stories last...