Janet B. Walton is Senior Research Scholar at North Carolina State University’s College of Education. She is a co-editor of the STEM Road Map curriculum series, a series of books that provides project ...

Special coverage of district and high school reform and its impact on student opportunities for success is supported in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Tom Horn points down ...

Students from the project-based learning wing at Jefferson High School will have to start taking semester tests this year. Those students didn’t have to take them in years past, when they were ...

High school teachers can build projects around issues in the local community to motivate students before and after winter ...

On the second-floor landing at Link Elementary School is a Kindness Tree. Link students and staff are filling the tree this February with paper hearts expressing thanks for acts of kindness they saw ...

A local high school is helping students to get back on track. At Cambridge Continuation High School students are doing more than catching up on credits. "The traditional curriculum hasn't worked for ...

PHILADELPHIA — In a city that’s struggled to meet the educational needs of many of its children, especially its most vulnerable ones, a select group of district high schools is shunning the ...

Editor’s note: As part of Education Lab this school year, we selected a panel of students to write essays about education issues that matter to them. This is the fourth in a series. Here are the first ...

Project-based learning – a teaching approach whereby students explore and solve real-world challenges – can improve third graders’ scientific knowledge as well as their social and emotional skills.

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