Volusia schools simulate town for financial literacy lessons

Some 2,400 fourth-grade students in Volusia County Schools participated in the Junior Achievement BizTown simulation, where ...
Education Week

How to Build a Reading Block: Two Teachers Share Their Approaches

Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...

‘How does the building not fall down?’: Philly second graders’ quest to learn about a project rising outside their classroom yields adorable answers

The massive construction project rose outside Room 221, where 22 curious second graders peered outside their classroom daily, ...
WBBJ-TV

Lessons come to life as Martin Primary’s second graders meet local government

Martin Primary’s second graders didn’t just learn about local government— they got to meet it. As part of their unit on government, the entire grade welcomed three community leaders into their ...
Public Finance

Lessons from the second cities of UK and Japan

Jeffrey Matsu is chief economist at CIPFA. With extensive experience in connecting policy with practice through evidence-based research, he works with partner governments, accountancy bodies and the ...