Students don't need to like their teacher to learn, but they tend to like teachers who teach well.

Students are learning more at Houston schools that stress teacher-guided classrooms, structure and order.

Schools are moving to scripted, structured lessons and "high-quality" (they hope) learning materials.

Parents can send children to school rested and ready to learn, but schools have to do their part too.

Teaching students to be responsible for their actions is back in fashion.

Good, old-fashioned printed textbooks are valuable learning guides.

Fourth-grade math scores are way up in a rural Alabama county that's turned to data analysis and coaching to improve learning.

Teachers should focus their time and energy on teaching, not DIY curriculum design.

Steubenville's families are struggling to make a living -- but their children are excellent readers.

When teachers teach, ask questions, let students practice and provide feedback, students learn more.

Schools need to focus on teaching academics rather than trying to end injustice or combat climate change.

How do teachers get the attention of easily distracted "digital natives?"

Schools can't teach creativity as a general skill applicable to all fields.

K-1 students made significant gains when teachers used UFLI Foundations, a systematic phonics and phonemic awareness program.

The evidence that mainstreaming special-needs students improves their academic success is "flawed," says a new study.

Teachers and students need safe, orderly schools.

If schools can't hold students accountable, nobody's going to learn anything.

Is it true that "the person doing the smiling is the person doing the learning"?

Teenagers are working less and earning higher grades. Everybody's "phoning it in."