Steubenville's families are struggling to make a living -- but their children are excellent readers.

When teachers teach, ask questions, let students practice and provide feedback, students learn more.

Schools need to focus on teaching academics rather than trying to end injustice or combat climate change.

How do teachers get the attention of easily distracted "digital natives?"

Schools can't teach creativity as a general skill applicable to all fields.

K-1 students made significant gains when teachers used UFLI Foundations, a systematic phonics and phonemic awareness program.

The evidence that mainstreaming special-needs students improves their academic success is "flawed," says a new study.

Teachers and students need safe, orderly schools.

If schools can't hold students accountable, nobody's going to learn anything.

Is it true that "the person doing the smiling is the person doing the learning"?

Teenagers are working less and earning higher grades. Everybody's "phoning it in."

Mixing high-achieving, average and low-achieving students in the same class was a noble experiment, writes Ryan Normandin, a high school...

Few teenagers read for fun regularly, and many don't read for school either, writes Natalie Wexler on Minding the Gap. We're "becoming a...

Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful for our legacy as Americans , writes Rick Hess, being very Old School. As a former social studies...

Explicit teaching works better than student-centered learning.

English teachers don't teach many novels because students won't do the reading on their own.

Subtract , advises Adam Boxer, a chemistry teacher in London, on his Substack. He visits many schools and finds himself telling school...

Should teachers teach about the election?

"Differentiating instruction" in a class with a wide range of performance levels doesn't work for high achievers -- or anyone else.