I hear these words from many exasperated new teachers (plenty of veterans too). And what most of them mean--just as I did, when I expressed this sentiment as a newbie--is that they want to be able to ...

Kara Cisco wants her students to deliberate. Each week in her 9th grade civics class in a suburb of Minneapolis, the educator guides students through differing ideas of American government. Whether it ...

Law is seen as a discipline in which either you are an expert because you went to law school or completely ignorant because you didn’t. Of course, children and young adults learn what rules they have ...

This chapter presents an initial classification of skills and abilities, including various terms used to describe “21st century skills.” The committee found this preliminary classification scheme ...

Equipping students with 21st century knowledge and skills required for tomorrow’s jobs and matching them to market demands, sectoral labour force needs, and trends in the global economy—this is what ...

Educators don’t need to choose between building students’ knowledge and teaching reading comprehension strategies. The question isn’t whether to teach strategies—it’s how to do it and when. “Are we ...

Those who have agitated for subject knowledge, rather than skills, to be the focus of the national curriculum, may have been pleased to hear the secretary of state for education, Nicky Morgan, ...

Americans have long recognized that investments in public education contribute to the common good, enhancing national prosperity and supporting stable families, neighborhoods, and communities.