I spent days speaking to students across schools. What I saw was a system that keeps moving children forward without teaching ...

A March 29 article about fourth grade incorrectly referred to American Educator magazine as American Education magazine. (Published 4/9/2005) Fifth in an occasional series about the grades that ...

If there is one prevalent assumption that stands in the way of deeper learning, it is that you have to do “the basics” before you can engage in deeper learning. We see this idea in various guises. One ...