Alaska’s Legislature adjourned last week without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as ...

U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns ruled that the lawsuit against educational publisher Heinemann and three of its ...

Five years after George Floyd’s killing set off nights of destruction, vacant lots and broken buildings remain along Lake ...

Here’s a reading list put together by Emily Hanford, host and lead producer of our podcast Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong. I’ve chosen 10 things to recommend. I’ve read hundreds ...

“Flipping a coin would actually be better” for identifying struggling readers, one researcher said of the test created by influential curriculum developers Fountas and Pinnell. The first thing Havah ...

Elementary schools are racing to replace their reading curricula as part of a national movement to implement teaching methods based in cognitive science. But figuring out which materials measure up is ...

As President Trump prepares to release a list of projects that could be included in his $1 trillion infrastructure plan, groups are aggressively lobbying to make the cut. Over the past five months, ...

Violence was a dark feature of law enforcement in Minnesota's largest county 20 years ago. Amy Klobuchar saw it firsthand as the Hennepin County Attorney, though she kept a distance. Over eight years ...

Early in his life, Kurt Hahn had a vision of the kind of school he wanted to create, and it was nothing like the school he went to. Hahn was born in Germany in 1886 to a wealthy Jewish family. He was ...

In the early 1990s an American researcher named Catherine Lewis was working on a book about education in Japan. The book had nothing to do with how kids learned math, but sitting for hours in Japanese ...