Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...

A superintendent in Schuylkill County is getting national attention for his plan to protect students if an intruder breaks into a classroom. A day after our story about Blue Mountain School District ...

The teacher says my son sometimes has trouble focusing, but it’s only in one class, and when he describes the class, it sounds like there are a lot of distractions outside his control. My question is: ...

Nowadays, many students have behavioral difficulties: lack of concentration, limited autonomy, incessant chatter, etc. What if part of the solution lay in the ergonomics and layout of a classroom?

Hannah Tanguay was on a mission to teach her Fair Haven School first-graders two different definitions of the class’s newest vocabulary word: “store.” She had a trick up her sleeve to keep her ...

Modern students, bombarded by constant digital stimulation, struggle with traditional classroom demands for stillness and ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

Dr. Monica Wendel of the University of Louisville was working with researchers from Texas A&M on controlling obesity in children. In an experiment conducted over the summer, they removed the sit-down ...