The gathering at Big Lou’s Pizza had the makings of a classic high school pizza party: teen boys and girls sat on opposite ends of a long table chatting about an upcoming football game, checking ...

As the polls closed on the 2024 presidential election on the East Coast, six teenagers on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming were winding down from a hectic day. They’d just ...

Students at Ashland Middle School in Oregon don’t get A’s or B’s on their assignments, they aren’t graded on a 100-point scale, or given a traditional standards-based grade. But these ...

The 2024 election is finally upon us, and more than 150 million people will be voting for a slew of federal, state, and local officials. If you’ve been paying attention this fall, you’ve heard ...

I published a two-part series in 2020 sharing teaching strategies to apply during that post-election time, and it’s a safe bet that we educators can use all the help we can get coping with the ...

Media coverage about dire teacher shortages goes in cycles. Stories showed up in the 2014-15 school year, during the height of test-based accountability. And in 2008 and 2009, in the midst of the ...

In his first term, former President Donald Trump sought to significantly expand school choice, slash K-12 spending, and tear down the U.S. Department of Education, all while pouring fuel on the K ...

When Phillip Hare started his first job as a social studies teacher more than 15 years ago, he entered the field with a history degree. But then, he was asked to teach geography. The two subjects ...

Bonnie Morris has been keeping a journal for roughly 50 years. She used to read thousands of students’ essays for the Advanced Placement U.S. History exam. When she grades her students’ work ...

It is midnight in American politics. With the presidential election upon us, a large majority of voters are disillusioned by the state of our democracy. The word “fascism” is increasingly ...

Voters in Massachusetts—a leader in the standards-based education redesign movement—appear likely to approve a ballot measure to eliminate a key standardized test requirement for high school ...

Tense conflict over issues like how districts teach about race, their policies related to LGBTQ+ students, and the books they keep in school libraries cost American schools more than $3 billion ...