Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A St. Louis high school experiment traveled one third of the way to outer space and over 200 miles from the classroom. Emma Hayes ...

KINGSVILLE — Two years after choosing to experiment with a shortened school week, the Kingsville Independent School District is going back to a five-day week. The Kingsville ISD Board of Trustees ...

State Rep. Debra Lekanoff’s recent commentary asked taxpayers to further fund anti-American education (“Lawmakers must provide equity to charter school kids,” The Herald, April 1). That is education ...

Following Hurricane Katrina, a newly enacted state law identified schools that scored below the state average as failing and subject to takeover. The state took over 107 of New Orleans’ 120 public ...

In 2012, Los Angeles Unified School District set up an experiment. It offered parents in some parts of the city a new option: Instead of automatically sending their middle schoolers to their ...

It’s a Monday afternoon, and a sixth grade math class is humming with discussion as students shift and wiggle next to whiteboards set around the room. They’re trying to solve a math problem, and for a ...

Many years ago, I had occasion to invite a distinguished American mathematician to India. He was a highly accomplished researcher and a gifted teacher. However, unsurprisingly, he had had no occasion ...