Teachers strive to "make the lesson come alive" in a classroom setting. I fondly remember working on a diorama of Washington crossing the Delaware and creating my very own spurting volcano. The very ...

Davis Rogan entered the Homer Plessy classroom like he was walking onto a stage, jovially greeting the third graders before taking a seat at the keyboard. In seconds, they had launched into the "Mardi ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... My third-grade son is an anomaly. He actually enjoys a school subject, which — much to our chagrin — is being scrubbed from elementary schools nationwide.

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best social studies lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? We’ve all taught bad lessons and we’ve all taught good ones. This ...

COURTESY MICHAEL NORTH Masago Asai, a peace advocate, spoke at the recent 12th annual Hawaii International Forgiveness Day at Chaminade University. She was given a “Heroes of Forgiveness” Award in ...