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 ...

Oklahoma City Board of Education Chairperson Paula Lewis, right, speaks during a hearing May 7 at the Clara Luper Center for Educational Services in Oklahoma City. The school board on Monday approved ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feel comfortable finding sources Take initiative to find out things on own Intellectual independence Read proofs critically (question, understand, verify) Don’t take anyone’s word for it. Value and ...

Missouri became the latest state to adopt a new set of education benchmarks to replace the national Common Core standards, ditching the benchmarks Tuesday following conservative backlash. The State ...

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 ...