Two new books that examine race and classroom experiences in the 20th century have been recently published; while the first explores how race was taught in U.S. classrooms from 1900 to 1940, the ...

In the mid-20th century, ... lessons delivered almost exclusively from a single teacher at the front of the classroom. Group work was uncommon. Move heavy metal desks and ruin uniform rows?

Christine Steigleman’s 21st century classroom in Hidenwood Elementary School looks a lot like a 20th century classroom. There are posters and whiteboards on the walls, a trio of computers in a ...

William Raspberry’s “Treating teachers like professionals results in `choice’,” (June 30) features Jurassic ergonomics: “A 19th Century teacher plunked down in a late 20th Century ...