Rather than reform our schools, Bush's test-centric education bill will lead to game-show-style teaching and unfairly categorize kids as failures.

The president came out last weekend against the overemphasis on testing, breaking with 20 years of precedent

Randi Weingarten warns of "huge backlash," and tells Salon why she still believes in Common Core's potential

In the age of search engines, perfect recall is no longer prized -- and we're taught to skim rather than remember

From mass opt-out to action against the SAT requirement, progress was made against the test-and-punish movement

Tips, tricks and guidelines to get the most out of your kids' video game experience

Can memory actually be taught? Why do dirty images help? Joshua Foer explains how to stop forgetting

Get fluent in the language of your choice, on your time

In the era of No Child Left Behind and Common Core, we've forgotten about the learning and development that matter

An old-fashioned educational practice may be set for a comeback

We're failing the next generation if we don't come up with a coherent national youth policy

Charter schools, Race to the Top, public education -- none of it came up in the '12 debates. Let's change that now

Handheld navigation can empower those with spatial orientation challenges, be they real or imagined

Retaking the test alongside my daughters, I learned (the hard way) that testmakers devalue critical thinking

Too often consumers are seen as "co-conspirators" rather than victims of fraud. It obscures a much larger problem