Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...

NEW BEDFORD — Some 20 third-graders stood in two rows on stage at the Pulaski Elementary School as Rick Morin directed them. “Run in place,” he instructed the students, as they stomped their feet on ...

Think math is uninteresting? Try using it to answer fundamental problems that provoke interest and wonderment, such as calculating the distance to the moon. "It is a beautiful problem with an eloquent ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Education Secretary John King on Tuesday doubled down on his effort to support a well-rounded education for the USA’s schoolchildren, unveiling a curriculum that embeds music into ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? We’ve all taught some great lessons and we’ve also all taught some pretty bad ...