Jennifer Norrell led an effort to more than double the percentage of high schoolers taking AP in her district.

It puts kids in a real-world situation, whereby when you get work done, you get to do things that are more fun than work. “Nows” are, at home, usually homework and chores, and “Laters” are ...

and better able to understand that doing hard work means you’re a valuable member of a community.” Those are the type of kids I want and those are the types of community members I want as well.

These old men are the modern Yayatis. Yayati is a character from the Mahabharata who wanted to stay young and so begged his ...

A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well. In India, many kids who work in ...

has a daily chore. One of my kids said that they do all the work and we, the parents, do none. I laughed out loud. Then I matured up a bit and listed for them every single thing I’d done that ...