The holidays are full of excitement, but also a great chance to teach kids money skills. Incorporating financial lessons into ...

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Finally, the most effective way to teach kids about money is to lead by example. Kids are like little sponges, soaking up ...

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Veteran teacher Courtney Phillips discovered that math can be taught in an engaging way through the ancient game of mahjong, ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming number, stripped of all context, deployed to trigger fear and ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. One month into the school year, my math classroom is buzzing with familiar rhythms: assessments, routines ...

In many a school auditorium, a theater kid could be spotted sitting cross-legged with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, surrounded by peers who had just belted their way through the entire Hamilton ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...