Direct Instruction programs have long drawn criticism from educators who say they limit teacher autonomy. But surveys suggest ...

In the 1960s, the United States government wanted to find the best way to teach kids who were behind. A federal study called ...

Willie Mae King remembers standing on a stage in a red and white outfit, celebrating the end of third grade with her classmates. “I remember everything from that time,” said King, now 64. “I loved ...

Sequel Youth & Family Services, a company that once sought to dominate the youth behavioral health industry, is facing growing financial turmoil amid new allegations of mistreating children. The ...

Listen to this audio documentary on the Educate podcast. Subscribe now. Last school year, when Cierra was a junior in high school, her math teacher quit and a substitute teacher with no math training ...

Paul Dorr is a master of tactics to defeat referendums intended to finance public schools. He believes schools run by government steer kids away from Christianity. His campaigns — most of them in the ...

The state of Mississippi will pay Curtis Flowers $500,000 for his nearly 23 years of wrongful imprisonment. Mississippi Circuit Judge George Mitchell ordered the compensation on Tuesday. Under the ...

Once offshore oil platforms drain their wells, the government has the power to force the companies that own them to tear the structures down. But the owners can put off that costly process using a ...

Violence was a dark feature of law enforcement in Minnesota's largest county 20 years ago. Amy Klobuchar saw it firsthand as the Hennepin County Attorney, though she kept a distance. Over eight years ...

After learning that Willie James Hemphill was an initial suspect in the murders at Tardy Furniture, reporters for In the Dark wanted to find out if he'd ever broken the law before. The answer was yes ...

In September 2021, a 4-year-old girl’s babysitter caught her touching another child inappropriately. “I asked her why she was doing that,” the babysitter texted the girl’s mother, “and she told me ...