Twenty-first century teaching and learning pose stark challenges, as we seek both to educate all of our children and to do so to a level of unprecedented rigor. Meeting our audacious goals will ...

Many high schools succeeding at raising student achievement are increasing the amount of time students are in school. Many American high schools currently succeeding at raising student achievement are ...

There’s no national policy dictating how many days or hours students must attend classes each year. That means students in some states and districts can end the year with substantially more learning ...

My son’s high school has something called Independent Learning Time this year. Is this another fad? Will it help students? Yes, it’s another fad that is unlikely to help your child. Independent ...

At the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, Tom Cangiano, Head of School at GEMS World Academy Chicago, decided to teach a ninth grade literature class. If you ask him, it was the best decision he ...

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Similar to previous overseas studies, teachers in our study spent significantly more time teaching paper-based writing than ...

Everything takes more time if you are poor. The essentials of daily life, getting groceries and doing the laundry and getting to and from work, take planning and time that most of us scarcely consider ...