Boring, Boring, Boring.” I have long defended public education in this space, but must acknowledge this criticism has too much merit to ignore. As an educator, I must ask, "Why is school, which is ...

Netflix's newest throwback series comes on the heels of Stranger Things, which took us all the way back to the glorious 1980s. With Everything Sucks! the streaming service explores the experience of ...

We asked kids what they would do to make a boring school subject more fun. Here's what they had to say: If I could make one of my classes more fun, I would try to make my math class fun. A lot of ...

Generations of students have said, “School is boring!” One person pointed out that school bores students because learning is difficult, and that “boredom” and “difficult” are one-in-the-same. When a ...

(Original Caption) ca. 1886-New York: Schoolroom in the Lower East Side New York: View of Benches. Photo by Jacob Riis. BPA2# 1314. I was in Washington, DC last week teaching at the American ...

We created boring schools and then put them online. Our focus on testing made learning small and easy to grade rather than valuable. We pretend there is an average kid who is supposed to be at this ...

A lot of school districts have instituted smartphone bans for students during the school day but a British boarding school has taken it one step further. Wait, scratch that. They’ve taken it one step ...