While reading the brief "Tardy teacher blames breakfast" (Aug. 29), I almost laughed that a teacher would blame his "bad habit of eating breakfast" for his 111 times tardy in the last two years.

“We asked Randi Weingarten, the head of the 1.4 million-member American Federation of Teachers, the second--largest teachers’ union in America, to put a number on the percentage of incompetent ...

NORWALK -- School district officials are investigating a video broadcast on the Web that appears to show Norwalk High School math teacher Richard Allaire taunting a student and calling him a "faggot." ...

On more than a few occasions, I have heard thoughtful educators and ed-tech thinkers talk about how technology amplifies both good and bad. They point out that if you put learning technologies in the ...

A year ago this month, the realization began to settle in: All the workarounds we’d devised to continue teaching during the looming pandemic weren’t going to be a short-term thing. Looking back, it’s ...

Decades of research have shown that students are very interested in being their own bosses. In the ’90s, for example, a Kauffman Foundation study found that two-thirds of high school students wanted ...

My daughter is smart but a bad test taker. What kind of alternative assignments can she be given to accommodate her deficiency? What makes one a bona fide BTT (bad test taker)? Eating the questions ...

A Kansas school teacher stepped down from her post in dramatic fashion this week, citing dissatisfaction in contract negotiations by her school district. When eighth-grade teacher Amanda Coffman ...