One school day a few years ago, Eric Westendorf, then-principal at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Northwest Washington, realized he didn’t fully understand a basic middle-school math concept: ...

Kai Ryssdal: For those who haven’t been in a modern public school classroom lately, there have been some changes since the days you had to whack the erasers together after class to clean them out.

A trip to Hiroshima, Japan early in his teaching career set Eric Westendorf on a path to revolutionize curriculum. “I spent two weeks in schools observing teachers planning and teaching," he says. "It ...

I’m intrigued by any effort to reduce our perpetual re-invention of the wheel in education, so it’s with great interest that I’ve followed the progress of LearnZillion over the past few months.

(CNN) On any given Sunday night, your child’s teacher might face this problem: How do you come up with a lesson plan for 20 or more students for an entire week when all your students are learning at a ...