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“While we aren’t necessarily able to physically touch each other yet, the presence of another has truly just been phenomenal.” Students return to John Wister Elementary School in Philadelphia’s ...

One of the most popular topics these days in education is mastery learning—the idea that the pace of a class should match what each student is ready to learn, as a way to ensure they’re really ...

NEW YORK — At New York City’s Urban Assembly Maker Academy high school in lower Manhattan, two things immediately stand out. First, its teachers are rarely standing at the front of the classroom ...

Sarah never smiled in my classroom. At least not with her eyes. She spoke under her breath. Whispers of words I couldn’t usually hear. She is one of the many students who I remember because despite my ...

When Virginia’s Prince William County school district switched to standards-based grading nearly a decade ago, middle school social studies teacher Erin Merrill wanted an easier way to keep track of ...

As we return to primarily teaching face-to-face courses this fall, many of us are considering what this transition will mean for our teaching and our students. Will we just wave a magic wand, and ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- New teachers within the Mastery School network are setting up classrooms before more than 14,000 student return in just over a week across Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey.

“I was doing terrible at home,” she said. Same for her classmate, Parris Boyette. “It’s the best thing that happened to me,” said Boyette, a 17-year-old basketball player, about returning to school in ...

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Caddo Parish Public Schools students achieved notable gains in math while sustaining growth in English and science, and demonstrating continued growth, according to data released on ...