As a young conservative growing up in New Jersey, my time in the Garden State’s public schools was never boring. In a state as blue as Papa Smurf, my teachers would routinely challenge, mock, and ...

Video: "Introduction to Narrative Writing" From the final report: When responding to, “How do students describe their own learning from the video series?” Susan wrote, “All 44 students responded “yes” ...

Last month, the Florida State Board of Education unanimously approved new African American history education standards for K-12 public schools. Among the many alarming directives: middle school ...

How does a state keep its capital city united? A strange question, and one that is clearly not an issue in most of the world. But in Israel, whose capital is the most coveted and contested city in the ...

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Stories make us who we are. They make history come alive in a way that no textbook can, they help us build understanding of, and respect for, our school, country, global community, and each other. In ...

When Edward B. Burger presents a math challenge to his class at Baylor University, he paces the aisles and pairs students together. “I want to hear chattering,” he says. Before long, students are ...

This article examines the importance of treaty education for students living in a province entirely ceded through treaty. Specifically, we ask and attempt to answer the questions "Why teach treaties?" ...

When I turned 16, I signed up for a driver's education class at my high school. We had hours of classroom education, hours of simulator training and a few scarce minutes of hands-on time behind the ...

The teaching of grammar in primary schools in England (a key feature of England's national curriculum) does not appear to help children's narrative writing, although it may help them generate ...