All it takes is a few semesters to complete UW’s graduate certificate in Teaching Elementary School.* If you hold a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university, you qualify to ...

A class of 16 fifth graders in Memphis, Tennessee, were asked how many had seen a real gun. Nearly all raised their hands.

Arkansas, Tennessee and Utah are the first states to enact laws that require public schools to teach children as young as 5 ...

Few elementary education programs give future teachers enough exposure to foundational math concepts, like number sense and algebraic reasoning, before they reach the classroom. That’s the upshot of a ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

As different initiatives, priorities, and efforts to change teaching and learning in schools come and go, one challenge remains constant: Time is a finite resource. In elementary schools, especially, ...

Teaching Children the Basics of Investing Saving, goal-setting and the basics of investing are some of the lessons adviser Jorie Johnson recently taught elementary school children that can apply to ...