Seventy years after the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, its place in history remains secure. As The Post has written: "It's seared into the collective global memory — no other time in history has a nuclear weapon been used in war." But how do the United States and Japan, and the rest of the world for that matter, teach this seminal event so many decades after the world witnessed this incredible display of force.

W. E. B. Du Bois’ 1899 account as a schoolmaster in the American South.

Culture conservatives win battle in ‘anti-American’ history debate as board approves plan to include section in advanced placement courses

A Department of Justice investigation found that Georgia is giving thousands of kids with behavioral issues a subpar education and putting them in the same run-down buildings that served black children decades ago.

The principal of an innovative West Harlem public school killed herself the day after her students took the state Common Core exams — which were later tossed out because she cheated

Brianne Altice, 36, wept before the court Thursday to little, if any, sympathy. She was then sentenced to up to 30 years in prison.

Studies confirm the wisdom of teaching social skills first: Children who feel well-liked settle down to learn better in class, and go on to do better in life. By David Bornstein.

UCLA scientists report that sixth-graders who went just five days without glancing at a smartphone, television or other screen did substantially better at ...

On July 26, America celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This law and its predecessors changed the lives of those with disabilities. This is Jim's story.

Head teachers are more concerned with pupils' mental health than any other issue related to well-being, a survey suggests.

It wasn’t until my second reading of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, over a decade after it first had been assigned to me by my public high school English teacher, that I understood that Jake’s dick didn’t work...

During U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech on Wednesday regarding a new government initiative to bring high speed internet access to low-income groups, the topic of South Korea’s education system came up. “In South Korea they pay their teachers the way they pay their doctors,” he said in front of an audience at Durant High School in Durant, Okla. “They consider education to be at the highest wrung of the professions.”

We have a rare chance now, with many teachers near retirement, to prove we’re serious about education. The first step is to make the teaching profession more attractive to college graduates.

Thousands of Ohio teachers are choosing to put down chalk and pick up checks instead.

Goal-setting closed achievement gaps in a recent experiment. The key element? Students put their thoughts in writing.

Using facts and figures, an educator shows that "it is an impossible mission to create a valid and fair formula by which to rate teachers using student test scores.'

In the past decade, digital scholarship has gone from being a quirky corner of the humanities to a mainstream phenomenon.

Teachers TryScience is a web site for teachers.  This site provides free and engaging lessons, along with teaching strategies and resources, which are designed to spark students’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).  What’s more, the site features collaboration tools to enable teachers to discuss and share effective instructional practices. 

Students don’t stand a chance to engage when they’re lured into the digital labyrinth.

Taylor Mali is an American slam poet, humorist, teacher, and voiceover artist. "What Teachers Make" is likely his most famous poem.