I let my 8-year-old walk to school alone and taught her to cook at 7. I want her to be independent, like I was growing up

I grew up in El Salvador, where I was given a lot of freedom. I'm now raising my kids in the US, and I want them to have the ...

Maryland District Sheds Remedial High School Math Courses, Sees Students Soar

Administrators at Maryland’s Calvert County Public Schools believed the math classes they added to their course catalog years ...
PHL17

PA Local Heroes: The award-winning elementary teacher making math fun

PA Local Heroes is a monthly feature sponsored by Ballard Spahr. Installments appear first in PA Local, Spotlight PA’s weekly ...
Quanta Magazine

The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

28 Teachers Are Sharing The "Basic" Things Students Apparently Cannot Do Themselves Anymore, And We Should All Be Panicking

"I fear for the future of this country. I won’t see the ultimate consequences, but there are enough signs right now to tell ...
BuzzFeed on MSN

“It’s pathetic” — Teachers are sharing the everyday things students can't do for themselves anymore

"I fear for the future of this country. I won’t see the ultimate consequences, but there are enough signs right now to tell ...
The Scientist

A PhD Opens More Career Doors Than Researchers Think

Connecting research skills academic scientists already have can help them explore and transition to new careers.
University of Vermont

UVM STEM Ambassadors Reflect on Teaching, Learning with Local Youth

Each semester, University of Vermont students studying STEM — science, technology, engineering, or math — are trained to deliver experiential STEM activities to Vermont youth. They become STEM ...
Daily Herald

‘Kids love being in his class’: Middle school teacher blends hands-on instruction with real-world experience

His dad taught at Wheeling and Waukegan high schools, and with several teachers in the family, Bryan Henley wanted to try ...
Opinion

Fixing education

South Carolina continues to make improvements in education with the predominant publicized change being the increase in the minimum starting salaries of teachers which is intended, in part, to encoura ...
Wall Street Journal

Teach High-School Students Basic Economics

Financial literacy deserves more attention in our schools, but not at the expense of economics, and not as a substitute for it (“Students Prepare for Real World With Personal Finance Classes,” ...