Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...

Too often, Black children are labeled as needing “skills development” after they receive low test scores. But such labels ...

Cherri McKinney rides the bus home from her office in Denver using an EcoPass, a free monthly RTD pass, provided to Colorado state employees. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report The ...

Rural school closures are a growing trend, and Vermont, like many states, has recently proposed merging school districts to cope with falling enrollment.

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or the Nation’s Report Card, as it is known, revealed that students are underperforming in reading, with the most recent scores being the lowest ...

It’s been five years since California and other states started blocking colleges from withholding students’ transcripts for unpaid bills, with the federal government adding restrictions. But some ...

Amid a year of upheaval, were some promising steps taken to elevate children’s issues and pay for programs that support the earliest years of life.

First grade teacher Emily VanDerhoff, who is also a member of the Fairfax County NAACP’s education committee, was incorporating phonics into her lessons before Fairfax County renewed its focus on how ...

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College enrollment is decreasing — the result of declining birthrates and concerns among parents that the financial investment in college isn’t worth it — and fewer students means fewer tuition ...