Put another way: Playing one video game ... The soaring promise of technology in the classroom has failed to deliver results while imposing great costs on children and taxpayers.

“Now she’s back and told the kids that her mum died,” the student’s parent wrote. “It seems very young for them to have to think about mums dying.” The students in the classroom are ...

As kindergarten becomes more academically intense, some schools in Wichita are incorporating self-directed free play — known among educators as purposeful play — into the daily schedule as a way to ...