Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

While America’s rich are getting richer, evidence seem to indicate they are getting smarter—or at least better in school—as well. Nationwide, until around 1980, middle- and upper-income students ...

Students in an 8 a.m. principles of data management class talk among each other as they solve a data base problem. Sometimes they get up and write on a 6-foot whiteboard on wheels that doubles as a ...

Veteran teacher Valerie Powell typically starts classes by standing in the doorway so she can monitor students heading to her classroom. In the early weeks of the school year, she did it while ...