"GMA" explores a new nonprofit financial-literacy curriculum for schools. In a classroom that features larger-than-life murals of a bull and a bear -- traditional symbols of the stock market-- a group ...

Having never lived away from my home and family, I confess I hesitated to pursue the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend the prestigious Harvard Secondary School Summer Program, so I consulted ...

For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel it instead with the kinds of inquiry that drive historians themselves. Now, the ...

My daughter Kaitlyn is an English teacher at Monsignor Bonner/Archbishop Prendergast High School. She’s also thick in the middle of pursuing her doctorate in education. I write this not to brag about ...

Students who are learning English often fall behind on key indicators of academic progress. They trail their native-English-speaking peers on national and state tests, and are less likely to finish ...

These high school kids are getting a ‘bear’ bones education. Juniors taking American literature at highly rated Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn were tasked with a series of rudimentary ...