The Orleans Parish School Board, which controls the curriculum and policies for six schools in New Orleans, voted Tuesday to ban the teaching of creat...
What kids learn in school tends to change with the times, and some curricular regulations that are either antiquated or simply embedded in beliefs hav...
Over the past couple years, several states attempted ā and in some instances, succeeded ā in passing legislation that brought controversial change...
America's Report Card sets itself the task of educating Americans about the status of its children, and in this respect it is a wake up call. But the report limits itself to the policy recommendation of "we must do better by our children." I'd like to connect dots and draw lessons.
Perhaps we reap what we sow. If we assume that children are a "problem" to be solved (to be controlled or crammed full of knowledge or taught how to behave), are we creating a self-fulfilling prophecy?
There are many things American schools need. More early academic emphasis is not one of them. In fact, early academic emphasis is one of the root causes of the intractable achievement "problems" in public schools.
While we're reworking our curricula, we could also reassure our fellow citizens that things are rarely as bad as they seem -- including the state of students' historical knowledge.
At one Ohio school, teachers take a backseat, letting students drive hands-on classroom lessons.
Although the current national education dialogue ce...
Everyone has different abilities and we all peak at different level, depending upon what that activity is. Unfortunately, this view is not shared by the people writing school curriculums now.
Teachers have no First Amendment free-speech protection for curricular decisions they make in the classroom, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday...
"South Park" paid tribute to the late J.D. Salinger last night, when the gang was assigned "The Catcher in the Rye" to read for school. In a hilarious...