Nowadays, dozens of different e-learning systems are available on the market. If each of them accepts only tailored content and isn’t interoperated with another software, it will be a killer for the ...

The National Science Education Standards point out that “assessments provide an operational definition of standards, in that they define in measurable terms what teachers should teach and students ...

In the context of standards and this report, infusion means including the learning goals of one discipline—in this case engineering—in educational standards for another discipline. Infusion would take ...

In the United States, education is primarily under the purview of the states. Although the federal government has taken a larger role since the creation of the Department of Education in 1979 and the ...

Efforts to raise student achievement in the nation’s urban schools are paying off. Math and reading scores are going up—in most cases outpacing the national average for improvement—while ...

History teachers strive to show students what the past can tell us about today. But what can state standards on history education teach students about the past, present and how to think critically? A ...

Today’s guest post is written by Thomas Guskey, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Kentucky. Educators have the odd habit of taking simple ideas and making them inexplicably ...

Missouri’s state board of education decided to provide schools with optional guidelines on social-emotional learning to help them cope with worsening student behavior. Commissioners are concerned ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The state’s top educators want to curb bad behavior in the classroom by implementing social-emotional learning standards for all students. For the past few months, a group of ...

Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and the author of "All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools Through Public School Choice," and "Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker ...

The battle over New Jersey’s new sex education standards flared in Haddonfield last month when parents were handed envelopes as they dropped off their children on the first full day of classes at the ...