Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I believe my suicide plans were justified. My childhood had been gruesome. The Cliffs Notes: My father died when I was 1. My ...

I remember sitting in an Intro to Education class as a college sophomore almost two decades ago, when our teacher (a retired public school teacher turned adjunct professor) asked us to go around the ...

Dixie La Pierre, 55, remembers what it was like to grow up poor in New Orleans. When she was 10, her class ordered from McDonald's, which she knew her mother couldn't afford. Her teacher "randomly" ...

While we'd do just about anything to be able to be a kid again, one thing we don't miss is school. From the mean teachers and terrible cliques to the loads of homework and the endless tests, we're ...

In the past, when someone new came into his kindergarten classroom to provide unsolicited “support,” the author’s immediate thought was always, “OK, great, what are they trying to sell me?” A literacy ...