The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this ...

A US school assignment went viral for all the wrong reasons this week — quizzing fifth-grade students on the life and work of Charlie Kirk. The right-wing activist was shot dead last month during a ...

A New Jersey school board is defending an elementary school student after a character development assignment about Adolf Hitler drew community criticism that it glorified the Holocaust. The picture of ...

The Grade 5 assignment seemed straightforward. The aim: to build a structure. The tools: a bag of marshmallows and a box of toothpicks. The challenge: It had to be strong enough to support a tin of ...