Miriam Schimmoller, a teacher at Oak Street Elementary School in Falls Church, is The Washington Post’s 2025 Teacher of the ...

Ohio and Pennsylvania are home to 179,000 Amish, all of whom are expected after the eighth grade to end their formal studies to help the community.

As a result, schools across the country are replacing traditional learn-to-read activities tied to balanced literacy approaches with the science of reading. Since its inception in 2013, the ...

Did you know that only about 1 in 3 American fourth-graders are proficient in reading? By fourth grade, if children can't read at grade level, they're unlikely to ever catch up. In math the average ...

By 10 th grade, children whose mothers didn’t work outside the home because of the program had grade-point averages that were up to 1.2 points higher than would have been expected otherwise (in ...