One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history. A local substitute teacher, John Scopes, was charged with ...

Reporters from across the United States flocked to eastern Tennessee in July 1925. In the small town of Dayton, biology teacher John Scopes went on trial for the crime of teaching human evolution.

In 1925, a teacher deliberately broke a law stating that evolution could not be taught in Tennessee classrooms. His trial rocked the nation. The following is an excerpt from Keeping the Faith: God, ...

After 32 years in the classroom, I’m officially retiring from teaching high school math. It’s a bittersweet goodbye to a profession I have loved since the day I first picked up a piece of chalk in ...

Edward White is affiliated with Kingston University. One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can teach children, Americans ...

Some parts of this picture are clearer than others. Teachers are dissatisfied, students are struggling, and the future of education looks grim. Those are some of the findings of the Pew Research ...