Some of my most important lessons in life I learned from Jewish verses about trees.

“You only learn half the things you need to know in the classroom.” When I first heard that saying, I brushed it off as something adults said to make school sound deeper than it really was. But now, a ...

Lesson Plans, a blog from The New York Times, chronicles five teachers’ experiences during their first month of the new school year. The teachers include a poet and performer, two MetLife Fellows in ...

Imagine entering a science classroom where rows of students sit in silence, eyes fixed on their notebooks as the teacher dictates line after line from the prescribed textbook. This is not ...