Man listening music and using a phone while sitting on stairs outdoors. Walk into any classroom today, and chances are you’ll see students with earbuds in their pockets or playlists open on their ...

When the weather outside is frightful, the right activity can transform students’ pent-up energy into laughter, movement, and ...

A small public school on Chicago’s Southwest Side is on the rise academically but it still struggles to reach all its students. This year, Agustin Lara Academy is trying something new to reduce ...

October 26, 2009 (PRESS RELEASE) Chicago Public School students and teachers in four elementary schools and one high school now have a new way to deal with their stress during the school day -- the ...

CAMDEN - A thin blue film covers each fluorescent light fixture in Linda Brown-Bartlett's unconventional first-floor classroom. The blues and greens in her room — striping a hanging hammock in the ...

A few minutes into the Read 180 class taught by Scott Buresh at Mannheim Middle School, half the students walk to the computers in the back of the classroom while the rest start on workbooks at their ...

DUNMORE — Situated in the middle of a busy hallway at Dunmore Elementary Center is a classroom designed to bring calm to those who step inside. School officials opened the calm down classroom at the ...