High school rigor is often a facade, writes Natalie Wexler on Forbes. It’s a “Potemkin village.” High school graduates in the class of...

Periodically, my eighth-grade teacher would fill the blackboard with everything we should “know” for the test. I remember “1777” (battle...

Pray that your children get the first classroom, tweeted ResearchED founder Tom Bennett in response to the graphic by Deeper Learning....

We’re teaching reading wrong, writes Natalie Wexler in The Atlantic. U.S. schools spend a lot of time on reading skills in the early...

Studying texts, without context, is no way to learn history, writes Will Fitzhugh on Diane Ravitch’s blog. But it’s the Common Core way....

“Critical thinking” is all the rage in schools, counters writes Chester E. Finn, Jr. in Education Next. “As construed and applied” in our...

Reading isn’t a “general skill that can be applied with equal success to all texts,” writes cognitive scientist Dan Willingham in the New...

If students choose what to learn, pursuing their own interests, they’ll be engaged and active learners, say some personalized-learning...

A “language of privilege” excludes those not born to the educated classes, writes Robert Pondiscio,in response to New York Times...

Google is all very well, but you still need your brain, writes cognitive scientist Dan Willingham in the New York Times. The more you...

In The Case for Contention, Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson argue for the Enlightenment tradition, writes David Steiner in an...

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge,” wrote Charles Darwin inThe Descent of Man (1871). He was on to...

Elementary schools have contributed to national discord by neglecting to teach American history and civic principles, writes E.D. Hirsch...

“Media literacy” — teaching students to distinguish between “fake” news, propaganda, hype and reliable information — is all the rage,...