K-12 Education

Children run into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico while playing on the beach in Perdido Key, Florida May 20, 2012. Two years after a history-making offshore oil well explosion devastated tourism in the region, the Gulf Coast is a hot destination once again, thanks in part to millions of dollars worth of promotion funded by the well's owner, BP PLC. Now tourism marketers from Louisiana to Florida are scrambling to maintain the momentum and find revenue sources for future campaigns. Picture taken May 20, 2012. REUTERS/Sean Gardner (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRAVEL ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY BUSINESS) - RTR32PEC

School calendars and Maryland’s Labor Day mess

Monday, September 19, 2016

Teacher Audrey Benes speaks to her kindergarten class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois

Do teacher expectations matter?

Nicholas Papageorge and Seth Gershenson

Friday, September 16, 2016

A robot gets a pat on the head by a visitor at an exhibit booth at Macworld Expo in Makuhari, east of Tokyo February 16. Developed for demonstration at the trade fair as an "edu-tainment robot" by Learning Systems company, the pet robot can be built from a kit and played with for educational and entertainment purposes, the company said.

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Education and accelerated change: The imperative for design learning

Daniel Araya and Heather McGowan

09/14/2016

An illustration picture shows a woman holding her Apple Ipad tablet which displays a tactile keyboard under the Google home page in Bordeaux, Southwestern France, February 4, 2013. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau (FRANCE - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS) - RTR3DCJL

Why don’t schools use the cloud? It’s worth the challenge

Joshua Bleiberg

Friday, September 2, 2016

A student carries her lunch tray at Salusbury Primary School

Making better use of data on free school lunches

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Students eat lunch at Salusbury Primary School

Principal, not food experts, most influential in the school cafeteria

Monday, August 29, 2016

Obama signs the Every Student Succeeds Act

A flood of criticism on proposed ESSA regulations, but will anything change?

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Thursday, August 25, 2016

School children pose before lessons start in Nicolas Estevanez Primary School in Havana September 28, 2011. Universal free education is one of the pillars of the socialist society built in Cuba since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION POLITICS) - RTR2RYAW

Bringing back busing: Do benefits outweigh cost?

August 23, 2016

Pupils pose for a photograph in Ms. Yasmin Hussain

The many ways teacher diversity may benefit students

Anna J. Egalite and Brian Kisida

Friday, August 19, 2016

Students calling for diversity protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington October 10, 2012. The Supreme Court will hear perhaps the biggest case on the docket so far, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, and weigh whether using race in undergraduate admissions to increase diversity is still acceptable under the U.S. Constitution. REUTERS/Jose Luis Magana (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST) - RTR38ZR4

We cannot simply hire our way to a more diverse teacher workforce

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Thursday, August 18, 2016