This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...

Many education researchers spend a lot of time studying how students learn, but if their findings don’t make their way into the classroom, they are only so useful. For example, researchers have known ...

As students are expected to read more challenging texts, the academic language they contain can be daunting. But a certain type of vocabulary instruction could help students break tricky words down ...