I started teaching special education in 1970, prior to the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, or PL 94-142. I welcomed the enactment of that legislation, because it forced school ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools leaders say lower-than-expected results in state reading and math scores released last week will require more progress this school year. The district’s school board set ...

A few years ago, third-grade teacher Laura Metrano considered herself strictly a language-arts person. “I am a writer and a reader,” she said during a break in her school day at Springhurst Elementary ...

After months of work and disappointing results on its last round of goals, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board Tuesday voted 8-1 for literacy and math goals designed to shape the next six years of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oklahoma City Board of Education Chairperson Paula Lewis, right, speaks during a hearing May 7 at the Clara Luper Center for ...

Students in Miss Faro’s mathematics classes at the Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark each created a mathematics goal that they wanted to complete before the end of the year. Each student wrote his ...

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board took a first stab Tuesday at new five-year academic goals designed to prepare more students for success in school and adult life. Members spent almost five hours ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools leaders say lower-than-expected results in state reading and math scores released last week will ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less ...

With school recently starting across many parts of the nation, it's time to think about how you plan to help your child -- or the other kids in your life -- succeed in math this year. But what about ...