Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

Prior to becoming an assistant principal at Cherokee High School in Rogersville, TN, Rebecca taught biology for twelve years in a high school setting. Rebecca’s desire to see her students embrace and ...

BYRON — Four years ago, Byron High School math teacher Troy Faulkner ended a practice commonly viewed as the art and essence of teaching: He stopped giving lectures to his students. Instead, students ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Dubuque Senior High School students circulated Angie Bishop’s classroom, graph paper in hand, during a recent honors Algebra 2 exercise. The students traveled from table to table, ...

For most teachers, classroom time is precious. This is as true or even more so, in a Chinese language classroom where students are learning not just how to speak, but how to write with characters.

The traditional sequence of teaching using lectures, discussion, projects, and testing was upended during the pandemic as teachers adapted to digital classrooms and students took on more ...

Naima Khandaker, Battelle for Kids Human Capital Specialist, contributed to this post. Naima is a former teacher and current education policy nerd who believes that one day soon, education will be ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. In a flipped ...

Flipped classrooms are the antithesis of UCLA’s mission to provide a high-quality education. Flipped classrooms, a new method of learning in which students learn course content independently at home ...

DURHAM – It’s not exactly a magical portal connecting a country manor to the forest of Narnia, but the pass-through door between classrooms 126 and 130 in Duke Engineering’s Wilkinson Building has ...

I’m returning to the blog after an hiatus brought on by two things: the six-week calculus class I am finishing up right now, and my participation in the I’m returning to the blog after an hiatus ...