Myopia has long been linked to spending too much time inside, but new research suggests that just simulating the outdoors in classrooms could help ward off the condition in children. Short-sightedness ...

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Listen up, elementary school teachers! This school year is almost over, but, by the time August rolls around and you head to your classrooms armed with supplies and colorful art displays, consider ...

It’s hard to imagine a kindergarten room without colorful drawings and posters, crafts on display and educational charts and maps covering the walls. But a recent study by Carnegie Mellon University ...

Teachers have a lot on their plates, from drafting lesson plans and grading assignments to dealing with misbehaving students and demanding administration. It seems we must add decorating to that list, ...

PITTSBURGH—Maps, number lines, shapes, artwork and other materials tend to cover elementary classroom walls. However, new research from Carnegie Mellon University shows that too much of a good thing ...

“I’m prepared to get written up this year for having too much color in my classroom.” We all remember the teachers who went above and beyond to make their classrooms feel like a second home. They ...

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Rachelle Pucci was drawing pictures to help her 13 first-grade students understand what they could expect in the classroom. Kerrian Blake was writing her kindergarten students’ names on a poster ...