Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. By Harris Cooper A second-grade teacher in Texas recently rekindled the annual debate ...

Homework remains a staple of many students’ educational experiences. But what do we know about the rationale for why teachers and schools assign it? The results of a recent survey by the EdWeek ...

Junior high students at the Marya Yates School in Matteson simply had too many crushes to attend to, Web sites to surf, and television shows to watch in order to sit diligently at their kitchen tables ...