Charter schools might make up only 5 percent of the nation’s schools, but they do get a lot of attention. More
Music and band teacher Alvin Aureliano Davis is the 2012 Florida Teacher of the Year Award and places academics before music in his classroom. More
The president of the NEA says that publicly judging teachers based on student test scores is the wrong way to provide feedback. More
A collaboration between The Learning Community charter school and non-charter public elementary schools demonstrates that students are hungry to learn More
Schools should employ the strategies used to teach the gifted and talented for all students. More
Comic strips and jokes often rely on language that highlights the building blocks of sentence structure. More
A Florida literacy company gave its first annual Teacher of the Year awards to Lil' Wayne and Nicki Minaj. More
By 2015, Teach for America wants 10 percent of its new teaching recruits to be Latino, to reflect the growing number of Latino students nationwide. More
Yukie Trevathan, a high school special education teacher in the Bronx, N.Y., returned to her community to pass on the zest for learning that helped he More
After their presentations at the Education Nation Summit, we asked Dr. Shonkoff and Dr. Gopnik a few more questions about their research and its polic More
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