A company allegedly used to launder money stolen from the government in the Feeding Our Future fraud case owns at least five ...

Elementary schools are racing to replace their reading curricula as part of a national movement to implement teaching methods based in cognitive science. But figuring out which materials measure up is ...

“Flipping a coin would actually be better” for identifying struggling readers, one researcher said of the test created by influential curriculum developers Fountas and Pinnell. The first thing Havah ...

Early in his life, Kurt Hahn had a vision of the kind of school he wanted to create, and it was nothing like the school he went to. Hahn was born in Germany in 1886 to a wealthy Jewish family. He was ...

For years, Randi Weingarten supported "zero-tolerance" policies in schools. Under zero tolerance, students who break certain school rules face mandatory penalties, including suspension and referral to ...

In the early 1990s an American researcher named Catherine Lewis was working on a book about education in Japan. The book had nothing to do with how kids learned math, but sitting for hours in Japanese ...

Ever since the 2008 economic recession, the state of Oklahoma has struggled with worsening teacher shortages. As in many states, the problem in Oklahoma is two-fold: A growing number of teachers have ...

The first and third Tuesday of every month, Lola and Archie Flowers make the two-and-a-half hour round trip to see their son. On April 3, they woke up early, and by 7 a.m. they were driving west from ...

Teachers call books published by Heinemann their "bibles." The company's products are in schools all over the country. Some of those products are rooted in a debunked idea about how children learn to ...

A publisher that once held a commanding share of the market for materials to teach and test reading has seen its sales drop significantly in recent years — a decline its attorney attributes to the ...

Listen to this audio documentary on the Educate podcast. Subscribe now. In early September, we released an audio documentary and accompanying article called Hard Words: Why aren't kids being taught to ...