For the first time in 50 years, the majority of students attending public schools live in poverty. How can schools serving low-income students help them thrive?

NPR Ed compiled a summary of some of what we learned from the ivory tower in 2014, including what’s the best way to teach math to struggling first graders.

Remember the shock you felt, as a little kid, when you realized your teacher had a life outside the building? NPR's new series explores what some teachers get up to after school. 

One African American filmmaker thinks so. He believes setting aside a time designated to celebrate Black history simply furthers the idea of it being separate from other U.S. history.

Illinois Public Media seeks Illinois residents who were among the service members, refugees, conscientious objectors, and draft resistors with first-hand experiences of the Vietnam conflict at home or abroad as part of our year-long gathering of oral histories and TV and radio reports during this 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.