Rural school closures are a growing trend, and Vermont, like many states, has recently proposed merging school districts to ...

She eventually encountered Pamm Shaw, who created one of the first early educator apprenticeship programs in the country for ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...

Too often, Black children are labeled as needing “skills development” after they receive low test scores. But such labels ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or the Nation’s Report Card, as it is known, revealed that students are underperforming in reading, with the most recent scores being the lowest ...

About six years ago, an apprentice training to be a machinist in Washington state told her supervisor she would probably have to drop out of the training program after having her baby: She couldn’t ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Therese Arvisu, an English teacher in the Phoenix Union High School district, leads a Chicano literature class she developed with fellow teachers. “That was the first time, in a professional setting, ...

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...

The entrance to Hampshire College. The college’s former president announced that it was looking for a merger partner, triggering an uproar from students, alumni and supporters. She has since resigned ...