For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel it instead with the kinds of inquiry that drive historians themselves. Now, the ...

School was supposed to prepare us for life-but did it? The lessons that missed the mark and the life skills we desperately needed instead. You solved a complex maths equation, yet still struggle to ...

Structured music lessons significantly enhance children's cognitive abilities—including language-based reasoning, short-term memory, planning and inhibition—which lead to improved academic performance ...

“Academic medicine is one of the best places for faculty, staff, and students to explore their passions and discover new opportunities,” says Thomas Chi, M.D., MBA, chair of the Department of Urology ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I spend my time looking at ways to improve public schools. So why have I been fascinated by a private school charging $40,000 a ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A group of south suburban students are stepping out of the traditional classroom and learning life lessons in the stables. CBS 2's Shardaa Gray shows us how horses are showing them ...

Saying thank you is not a small thing. Getting thanked makes students feel valued and reinforces the kind and helpful things they do that they are being thanked for. And the act of causing someone to ...

"GMA" explores a new nonprofit financial-literacy curriculum for schools. In a classroom that features larger-than-life murals of a bull and a bear -- traditional symbols of the stock market-- a group ...