Liz O'Connell is a Newsweek Reporter based in North Carolina. Her focus is on pet news and videos. Liz joined Newsweek in 2023 and had previously worked at PetHelpful.com, the Charlotte Business ...

I spent an enjoyable 46 years teaching shop classes at the high-school and middle-school level (“I Came, I Sawed, I Conquered” by Mark Naida, op-ed, April 13). My goal was that every student should ...

Pacing among work stations in her eighth-grade mathematics class at Southwest Middle School, instructor Kari Abelseth reached into two separate cups and withdrew a random Popsicle stick from each one.

It was six weeks into an honors Algebra class at Amundsen High School when student Dung Quang began to ponder this question: Since I’m acing every math exam, why should I bother to study? Three years ...