The Board of Education of Charles County honored five outstanding students during its regular meeting Dec. 9 at the Jesse L.

Does hitting the court help you when you hit the books? A recent University of Chicago analysis shows a strong link between school sports participation and academic achievement. Unfortunately, data ...

The Trump administration’s threat to cut federal funds to schools with race-based programs and a discrimination lawsuit ...

In a recent study published in Nature Human Behavior, researchers assessed the associations between cognitive and non-cognitive (NCS) skills and academic achievement from ages 7 to 16. Study: Genetic ...

This post is by Ron Berger, chief academic officer of Expeditionary Learning. When a student is finished with school and moves into adult life, she will be judged not by her ability to perform on a ...

Let’s imagine for a minute that family resources had no impact on the likelihood that an American student would graduate high school and go on to earn a college degree or beyond. In this idealized ...

Some schools are eliminating homework, citing research showing it doesn’t do much to boost achievement. But maybe teachers just need to assign a different kind of homework. In 2016, a second-grade ...