As teacher David Ramirez strode around his 7th-grade classroom at Oakland’s Urban Promise Academy, he was taking on a central challenge of the new Common Core standards: how to ensure that students ...

Schools that want to boost long-term student achievement in math might want to pay more attention to the quality of their English teachers. A new study out of Stanford University, which looked at the ...

My students know all too well that if they need help in math, I’m the last teacher to ask. Math was extremely hard for me in school. Numbers moved around ...

A math teacher and a veteran English instructor from Maine South High School have been name finalists for a coveted education award. Zanfina Muja, a sophomore English teacher, and Cheng Jin, an ...

Teachers can use these tools to promote discussions and help students move from concrete to abstract understanding of concepts.

Schools are under constant pressure to make budget cuts, and music programs are often first on the chopping block. Now, an extensive study from the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that ...

The Understanding Language team at Stanford University has just released its first major collection of common core instructional resources in math meant for teachers who work with English-language ...