At Battle High School in Columbia, Mo., students in geometry class have swapped their compasses and protractors for hammers and hard hats. And they’re doing it for a good cause. The school is one of a ...

Want to learn more? Sign up for a free five-week email mini-course full of research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. In Sarah Cuddihy’s 1st grade class at Driscoll School here, ...

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 ...

Image courtesy of McGraw Hill. Imagine learning how to determine the slope of a right triangle by sending your own tiny skier down ski trails or by setting up skateboard ramps for a virtual skater to ...

A sculpture of the Wright Brothers at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills. Teachers who visit the Memorial can now use 16 lesson plans based on the historic flight to teach a ...

First-year Bad Axe math teacher Lilly Hessling, inspired by her educator mom, helps students build confidence and shares tips for resilience.

Shana Engel, a teacher in Colorado Springs, talked about how her mother’s struggle to learn English shaped her approach and ...

South Park Elementary math teacher Adrian Caston, a nominee for Educator of the Year, puts students in the teacher’s seat and ...

Dana Road Elementary teacher Santana Thigpen, an Educator of the Year nominee, links real-world lessons to students' ...

It was a quiet library as students bent over sketchbooks and concentrated on drawing Alaska Native designs including an eagle, wolf and killer whale. They were part of geometry and art classes at ...