Last spring semester, I began experimenting with polling as a way to improve student participation in my classroom. Persuaded by the work of Eric Mazur and others, I started polling my students — ...

For the past six years, the education world has been roiled by debate over the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The law, critics charge, is sucking the life out of the public schools, turning ...

This conversation explores the complexities of classroom censorship, the impact of educational policies on teacher autonomy, and the importance of fostering trust and transparency in education.

As teachers begin a new school year amid the pressures of state and school content requirements, technology challenges, and classroom censorship, what they really want from their principals is simple: ...

In June 1941, The New Yorker published a Peter Arno cartoon in which a father says to his teenage son, “Alfred, your mother and I think it would be a good idea for you to knock about on your own for a ...

Calls for a "new professionalism" in teaching have emerged from parliamentary select committee hearings, union conferences and media headlines. Debate has focused on practical factors - salary levels, ...

Federal inquiry hears how teachers are struggling against curriculum guidelines to vary their teaching styles to suit their students. Federal Queensland MPs Andrew Laming, Andrew Wallace, Trevor Evans ...

Think back to your school days — there was probably one class you genuinely looked forward to, not just one you had to survive. Maybe it was the subject, or maybe it was the teacher who gave you some ...

DALTON — In Teresa Bills' fifth-grade classroom at Craneville Elementary School, there's a strict contract that's stapled to a bulletin board at the front of the room. It's called "Super 6 Rules." ...

Jessica Lahey is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, columnist at Motherlode, and author of the upcoming book "The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can ...