Most students are 18 when they graduate from high school—technically adults. But how well-prepared are they to handle the life skills adulthood requires, or even to choose a viable path forward? Not ...

Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman said she instructs students on atoms, matter and how they “influence the world around us.” But Hackman also has another responsibility: ...

Teacher Matthew J. Clausen looked at his Web-design students—their fingers flying over their computer keyboards—and marveled. These 10th, 11th, and 12th graders—even the sullen or quiet ones who never ...

"Take a look over your data sheet and make sure you know what all the words mean," Sarah Slack tells her class of eighth graders. The students stop talking to each other and turn toward their science ...