Seattle-area parents parents are willing to fight to keep charter schools open.

To this Woodland Park Cooperative School teacher, play, particularly outdoor, unstructured play, is a fundamentally important part of education.

STEM Paths Innovation Network, or SPIN, hopes to create a more equitable playing field in the digital realm for low-income kids and kids of color.

The Foster Grandparents Program has grandparents in 20 schools and community centers in King County alone.

A recently imported program from Canada is tapping babies’ power to teach empathy and curb bullying in kids in 85 schools in the greater Seattle area.

Fourth- and fifth-graders might have something to teach adults about how to handle differing opinions.

Got a problem with your child's school and can't seem to work it out with the teacher or principal? Check in with Adie Simmons, head of the Office of the Education Ombudsman

Seattle Public Schools has built its brand around encouraging neighborhood schools — but it's been 65 years since residents of the downtown core have had one to call their own

Kathleen Wareham offers guidance on choosing private school

An Edmonds family knows that both the costs and the payoffs can be sky-high

Developmental milestones are tricky. There’s a sequence children go through as they learn skills, but they’re all on their own timetables.

Here’s a simple equation; Elementary students + their families + an evening of games and prizes = FUN!

Deb ​Escher got upset and then she got busy.

Coding with Kids classes aim to advance students around Puget Sound, from the very beginnings of computer programming in early elementary school up to the higher-level computer science needed for the high school AP exam and beyond.

Go to any student robotics competition, and overwhelmingly, you’ll see boys behind the remote controls. As for technology classes, it’s no secret that girls are underrepresented, sometimes stunningly so. But go to any class in the creative arts, and you’ll find girls — lots of them.

Local programs attempt to expose more underserved students to the STEM fields.