The Brainerd Dispatch and Pineandlakes Echo Journal asked second graders from across the Brainerd lakes area to write Letters to Santa this holiday season. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have!

But should districts disavow small-group instruction? When done well, students practice the skills they were recently taught, read connected text, collaborate with peers, and exercise ...

Kristen Gschwend's students remind the Pleasant Valley Elementary School life skills teacher of what really matters.

The author of the City Spies series chooses 7 crime novels that invite young readers to discover the culprit before the ...

The Brainerd Dispatch and Pineandlakes Echo Journal asked second graders from across the Brainerd lakes area to write Letters ...

With a print paper, you demonstrate that information is worth slowing down for, worth holding in your hands and worth paying attention to.

Poll finds 67 percent of Americans view the president's handling of the economy negatively, yet he rates himself ‘A-plus-plus ...

Grades have been shown to cultivate a fear of failure among students, at all ages, and inhibit them from taking intellectual ...

Another method is called collaborative grading, or ungrading, where students don’t get grades throughout the semester.

Opinion: As the number of home-schoolers has surged, the country has passively endorsed a nationwide system of blind spots, ...

Nicole commented that most people have a mix of Sweet Strawberry and Salty Peanut to their personalities. The books are ...

They broke with Donald Trump and with leadership to push and force a House vote to release the Epstein files, and it got ugly ...