Entries for the 'Improving Practices' Category

What if the key to engaging more students with science is as simple as handing them markers and letting them doodle? A recent study published in the j...

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation - it's a typical essay assignment for children as they return to school in the fall. The contents of the essay can vary...

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Guest Contributors Eric Cooper and Yvette Jackson of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education offer a moving commentary on the need to deve...

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Amidst concerns that class curriculum can become too focused on "teaching the test," the Advance Placement courses offered to high school juniors and ...

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A new study, financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has found that measuring teacher effectiveness may be as simple as asking the students...

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In this opinion piece, Caitlin Hollister and Wendy Soref, two elementary school teachers in Boston, examine Davis Guggenheim's documentary "Waiting fo...

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We've all heard that good study habits involve finding a quiet space and immersing oneself in the material. Psychologists are now challenging this adv...

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Elementary school students in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, are learning that slowing down is the way to get ahead. Schools here have been using a progr...

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With over 4,000 enrolled students, Brockton High School is the largest public school in the state of Massachusetts, and one of the largest in the nati...

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Earlier this month the Education Trust released two must-read reports detailing the gaps in minority graduation rates within U.S. colleges and univers...

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