Elementary school teachers often play a special role in their students’ lives, wiping away their kindergarteners’ tears when they’re missing their parents or supporting their fourth graders through a ...

A progressive education Progressive education—the tradition of Dewey, Piaget et al.—challenges that premise and, with it, the underlying false dichotomy concerning the role of the adult. In just about ...

Having the opportunity to create a learning environment that encourages creative thinking, teachers are in a unique position to help students develop one of their most important life skills. Although ...

Flexible working is key to tackling the teacher shortage and keeping teachers in the classroom, according to a new report. Part-time posts, personal days and giving teachers the opportunity to ...

[Noozhawk’s note: First in a series sponsored by the Hutton Parker Foundation.] Soon after Village Properties first opened — nearly three decades ago — the real estate agency began receiving requests ...

Elementary teachers can use these concepts to shift how they set up spaces, design learning opportunities, and empower students.

For the past two decades, New York City school teacher Sari Beth Rosenberg has guided high school students through the annals of U.S. history. Rosenberg's generation-spanning vantage point gives her ...

When I think about the importance of consistent classroom coverage, I always come back to the idea that students deserve to feel like their classroom is their home for the next 10 months. That sense ...

Half of all academic instructors at JCPS, who help teachers with classroom planning, are caught up in $142 million budget reduction.

The lights are off in this fourth-grade classroom, and Sydney Melvin is opening the blinds. Sunlight has a calming effect and helps her students focus, Melvin explains. "Sometimes we’ll open the ...

According to Michael Harrington and many other scholars, a careful reading of Marx's work makes it clear that he "regarded democracy as the essence of socialism." Soviet-style Communism, by contrast, ...