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ACCORDING TO THE CENTERS for Disease Control and Prevention, most children and adolescents in the United States eat too much sugar, fat, and salt, but not enough fruits, vegetables, and [...]

WHILE EDUCATION RESEARCH has long suggested that studying second languages in K12 schools boosts student achievement in other content areas, the current testing emphases on mathematics and reading has placed [...]

THE AVERAGE SCORE FOR eighth-graders on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was the highest ever, but only 39 percent scored at or above the proficient level (Lee, [...]

THE SUBJECT OF SCIENCE LENDS itself naturally to lab experiments, field experiences and other 'hands-on' activities. If well implemented, such activities can engage students and significantly increase learning. But if [...]

TEACHER COLLABORATION AND professional learning communities are frequently mentioned in articles and reports on school improvement. Schools and teachers benefit in a variety of ways when teachers work together. A [...]

NOT EVERYCHILD WHO FIDGETS and fails to follow directions has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). To receive this diagnosis from a health care professional, a child must exhibit chronic, developmentally inappropriate [...]

AS THIS MONTH MARKS THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY AND FIFTIETH ARTICLE OF THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION research department--now renamed Research Center--we sample insights from past columns on a variety of topics to [...]

UNDER THE NO CHILD LEFT Behind act, districts receiving Title I funds are required to offer free tutoring and other supplemental educational services to students from low-income families who attend [...]

MOTIVATION IS OFTEN cited as an important factor in students' becoming proficient readers. How does student motivation affect the development of reading skills? And what can teachers do to tap [...]

HOW CAN TEACHERS HELP students learn, remember, and apply academic skills and concepts? To answer this question, a panel of experts convened by the U.S. Department of Education recently examined [...]

IN GREAT BRITAIN, THE TIMES Educational Supplement reported this year that four out of five primary schools plan to replace traditional subject teaching with interdisciplinary, theme-based lessons, as recommended by [...]

ASKING QUESTIONS IS ONE of the most commonly used instructional strategies in K12 classrooms. Researchers have identified effective questioning as a too| for building students' basic and higher-level skills. Here [...]

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING statements about gifted education are true? (1) The term gifted means various things to various people. (2) K12 teachers generally express negative attitudes toward gifted students. [...]

SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS THAT serve a large number of English language learners (ELLs) have found it helpful to develop a comprehensive program that addresses the specific needs of the population [...]

WHAT CONSTITUTES A 21ST-century education? The answers vary (Walser, 2008), but 10 states have already adopted the framework used by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (www.21stcenturyskills.org), and more states [...]

WRITING, WHETHER FICTION or nonfiction, is a creative process. Even a letter requires writers to arrange words and ideas to make meaning. According to the revised Bloom's Taxonomy, creative processes [...]

EDUCATORS MAY SOMETIMES feel they are in a race against several clocks--the class period, the school day, the semester, the academic year, high school exit exams and so forth--as they [...]

THE WORD DYSLEXIA IS rooted in the Greek language and means 'difficulty with words.' Although dyslexia is known as a problem related to reading, it can also interfere with a [...]