Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

As the draft common standards undergo their final revisions, many minds are turning to the question of how to put them into practice in classrooms. But as a recent meeting of leading educators and ...

As the dust settles from emergency distance learning, schools now have the summer to reckon with what worked and what must change as they grapple with the uncertainty of the next academic year.