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Dana Road Elementary teacher Santana Thigpen, an Educator of the Year nominee, links real-world lessons to students' ...

At Battle High School in Columbia, Mo., students in geometry class have swapped their compasses and protractors for hammers and hard hats. And they’re doing it for a good cause. The school is one of a ...

First-year Bad Axe math teacher Lilly Hessling, inspired by her educator mom, helps students build confidence and shares tips for resilience.

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

A blend of family attitudes, cultural ideas, and frustration often lead students to believe that math ability is a fixed trait like eye color, teachers say. They believe they are either born with the ...

A sculpture of the Wright Brothers at the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills. Teachers who visit the Memorial can now use 16 lesson plans based on the historic flight to teach a ...

It was a quiet library as students bent over sketchbooks and concentrated on drawing Alaska Native designs including an eagle, wolf and killer whale. They were part of geometry and art classes at ...