The story of Amistad Academy, a charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, that turns kids at risk for failing out of school into students determined to enroll in college.
(April 14, 2006)
As a public school teacher on loan to the Smithsonian's new air and space museum, Margy Natalie relishes bringing her love of flying into the classroom. Includes a photo gallery.
(February 17, 2006)
Suffering from an incurable degenerative disease, Norma Jean Taylor can no longer walk, or even write legibly. But with help from students and colleagues, she remains a cornerstone of her school.
(February 17, 2006)
Growing up in St. Petersburg, Florida, Christine Rosen attended the Keswick Christian School, where the Bible was the primary textbook — and the sole authority on the origins of life on Earth. Rosen recounts her struggle, as a young girl, to reconcile her experience at a secular summer science program with Keswick's strict creationist teachings.
(December 21, 2005)
Some homeschoolers wanting to sample a class or two are being told they have to take the whole meal.
(November 11, 2005)
Alternative ed veteran Donna Johnson knows what it's like to fall through the cracks. Now, the 58-year-old grandmother is reaching troubled kids online.
(September 30, 2005)
Unlike its neighbour to the south, Canada has made parochial schools public in many of its provinces.
(April 15, 2005)
As writer in residence at a New Jersey prep school, novelist Paul Watkins discovered that teaching and writing about the past go hand in hand.
(April 15, 2005)
Two lifelong math teachers create an after-school program that brings their passion for the subject full circle.
(February 18, 2005)
A small liberal-arts college in the Berkshires has been educating teenagers since 1966. It's idea whose time may finally have come.
(November 10, 2004)
A novice educator went to an isolated school for troubled boys to teach. Years later, he returned to Penikese and learned something about himself.
(November 12, 2004)
Within earshot of the frenetic midway, children of traveling carnival workers are getting a serious education.
(October 7, 2004)
Vuong Thuy's Philadelphia charter school sends all of its graduates to college—and raises eyebrows—by being tough.
(October 7, 2004)
For years, a computer-assissted methodology called Universal Design for Learning has enabled special-needs kids in the Boston area to stay in regular classrooms. But can it work nationwide?
(October 7, 2004)
As a defensive lineman for the Baltimore Colts, the 6-foot-4-inch, 260-pound Joe Ehrmann was an all-pro bruiser on the field and a party animal off of it. But in 1978, after his 18-year-old brother died of cancer, Ehrmann blazed another path.
(October 7, 2004)
At Baltimore’s Kennedy Krieger Institute, class time is for kids with illnesses few doctors ever see.
(October 8, 2004)
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