As Joann Becker sits in the back of her sixth grade classroom at her desk, she is the picture of self-assurance and self-confidence. She projects competence and dedication. It is clear that after ...

At an age when many readers are raptly following the adventures of J.K. Rowling's cast of wizards and witches, Thomas Luffman devoured the papers of Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

With more careers than ever requiring math, parents say grade inflation by some teachers in that subject is putting public school students at a huge disadvantage when they write final exams and apply ...