The Common Core — a state-led effort to implement rigorous, national K-12 standards for math and reading — has become one of the most hotly debated issues facing American education. In recent months, ...

The widespread enthusiasm for social and emotional learning (SEL) is easy to appreciate. After all, it seems painfully obvious that children learn better when they feel valued, supported, and safe.

This country was not built by people with low expectations. It was built by great leaders in communities and states who stepped up, sometimes individually and sometimes together, to achieve great ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.