Ramona Denmark remembers how she felt when her son's teacher told her he needed to be retained in the first grade. He wasn't reading as he needed to be reading, they told her. He needed one more year.

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which ...

Several studies found that direct instruction and task structuring can effectively promote children's ability to design unconfounded experiments. The present study examined whether the impact of these ...

Eshelman Avenue Elementary School in Lomita would appear to have the cards stacked against it: Most pupils come from low-income households, and many speak little or no English at home. So how did the ...

James R. Delisle has earned our congratulations for calling out differentiated instruction as a fad that is simply not workable in real classrooms. Likewise, he has earned an equal amount of criticism ...