In 1983, The Associated Press profiled the Rev. Jesse Jackson when he was a 41-year civil rights activist preparing his historic 1984 campaign for the presidency. Jackson at the time described ...

There are lives that submit quietly to history, accepting its rough edges as fate, and there are lives that resist lives that argue back, reshape circumstance and insist on meaning where deprivation ...

Education leaders are trying different approaches to curb what elementary teachers say is a trend of increasingly severe behavior problems in their classrooms.

SAN MATEO, Calif. — School had been in session at Lead Elementary for less than an hour, but already Andrea Quinn had paused teaching her first graders nearly 20 times. First, there was the child who ...

This school has been able to increase attendance by building a culture of support and intervening immediately when a student ...

There are steps K-12 leaders can take to keep teachers and principals in the leadership pipeline, administrators say.

Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to ...

The focus is shifting from accountability to learning. by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis When Brian Jensen told his audience of HR executives that Colorcon wasn’t bothering with annual reviews anymore, ...

MILWAUKEE---Milwaukee Public Schools is appealing a proposed conference realignment that would move Reagan High School and Carmen South & Carmen ...