A new bill would require schools to screen all kindergartners, first- and second-graders for basic math skills. The idea is to help those children catch up to their peers who might have had much more ...

River Trail teacher Josh Gonzalez uses hands-on agriculture lessons and real-world learning to keep students engaged in class ...

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 students in this district ...

Alpha School, which is pushing to open this fall in Boston, is a private, for-profit that claims children can “crush ...

Two new initiatives are evaluating preschool curricula, making the case that programs designed to teach the youngest learners ...

NCAE is expecting thousands of educators and public education supporters to join Friday's "Kids Over Corporations" march in ...

Children spend just 4 to 7 minutes a day in unstructured outdoor play compared to more than seven hours in front of screens, ...

Grab a paintbrush, shoot some hoops or wind some gears this summer in local children’s activities for all ages and interests.

Instead of relying exclusively on abstinence-only models, many schools these days try to help students by investing in their ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...

Some experts worry that less homework could be a problem for math achievement, at a time when test scores nationwide are ...