K-12 Education

Children play with soap bubbles created by a street performer at Rizal park in Luneta, metro Manila, Philippines May 16, 2018. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC19387EB200

A prescription for play

Michael Yogman and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Children play chess at a classroom in the Dezso Lemhenyi school, which uses the new Chess Palace teaching programme of the world's best female chess player Judit Polgar, in Budapest October 15, 2013. With names like Jumpy Horse, Boom Rook and Tiny Pawn, pieces in the Chess Palace come to life and are like close friends who guide the children through difficult school subjects. They range in size from 1 cm (under half an inch) tall to a meter (three feet) in height. Chairs, walls and carpets also sport chess motifs. The pieces, whose combinations and moves represent mathematical, linguistic or musical patterns, help children develop their skills in chess and in their school studies while making the learning process a more joyous exercise. Picture taken October 15, 2013.REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh (HUNGARY - Tags: SPORT CHESS EDUCATION SOCIETY) - GM1E9AO1NK501

The power of play: A pediatric role in enhancing development in young children

Michael Yogman, Andrew Garner, Jeffrey Hutchinson, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Monday, August 20, 2018

A teacher reads with a student

Teachers in the US are even more segregated than students

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

A girl plays at a Lego store in Beijing, China January 13, 2018. Picture taken January 13, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee - RC1E40F51250

Why a gender perspective is important for early childhood educators in China

Monday, August 13, 2018

Teacher Jenna Rosenberg speaks to her first grade class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2013. According to officials in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, possible consequences of impending across-the-board U.S. government budget cuts, Illinois will lose approximately $33.4 million in education, putting around 460 teacher and aide jobs at risk that would receive funding. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E9320AA101

Accountability for early education–a different approach and some positive signs

Thursday, August 9, 2018

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Strengthening the social studies teacher workforce in America

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Trainee math teacher Mia Shaw from the Teach for America program teaches a class at George Washington Carver Middle School in Los Angeles, California July 18, 2012. This fall Teach for America will send a record 10,000 teachers into classrooms from New York to California. The nonprofit boasts $300 million in assets and collects tens of millions a year in public funds, even at a time of steep cuts to education budgets. But critics, including a handful of disillusioned alumni, contend that policies promoted by TFA-trained reformers threaten to damage the very schools they once set out to save. They argue, too, that TFA's relentless push to expand has betrayed its founding ideals. Picture taken July 18, 2012. To match Feature USA-EDUCATION/TEACHFORAMERICA REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION SOCIETY POVERTY WEALTH) - RTR36W0M

School policies and the success of advantaged and disadvantaged students

David Figlio and Krzysztof Karbownik

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Children listen to their teacher on the first day of the new school year in a primary school in Nice

Tax credits can help high-poverty schools attract more teachers

Dick Startz and Kate Walsh

Monday, July 30, 2018

Iana Williams, 8, reads a book

Can schools commit malpractice? It depends.

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Elementary school children are seen in a classroom on the first day of class in the new school year in Nice, September 3, 2013.

What does civics education look like in America?

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Monday, July 23, 2018