The first time I heard ontological in class, I ignored it. Epistemological soon followed, which—after a smattering of repetitions—merited a Google search. A semester or two later I tossed the ...

Academic texts are often not easy to understand. They can be incredibly dense and full of complicated language that reads as if it’s been put through a thesaurus numerous times. And to a certain ...

Putting the common-core standards into practice in classrooms is a monumental change for teachers in the nation’s public schools, but for educators who work with English-language learners, the shifts ...

As the country’s increasingly diverse, crowded and underfunded K-8 schools look for ways to help teachers bolster students’ literacy skills, some teachers are taking matters into their own hands.