When Betty Miller retired from a 24-year teaching career in Texas, she tried to find ways to fill her time. Gardening was a bust and she missed the mix of interaction with students and other educators ...

Lesson Plans, a blog from The New York Times, chronicles five teachers’ experiences during their first month of the new school year. The teachers include a poet and performer, two MetLife Fellows in ...

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"If it's yellow, then it's jello. If it's blue, it could be stew..." Sure, the kids in the movie Fame joked about their school lunch, but it's no laughing matter to thousands of kids who really have ...