Her lessons last several minutes to an hour; she meets with 5 to 6 pupils each day. “Not every educator can do this work, because the job is filled with heartache,” says Nina Pickett, who runs the ...

As a hospital chaplain, I have cared for families who did not get the chance to say goodbye and those who did. And, in my experience, the difference in their grief is enormous. Saying goodbye begins ...

Review of Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools, by Joel Klein, Harper, 320 pages, $21.16, 2014 Anyone involved in the administration of K-12 public school education can learn a great deal from this ...

Tanweer School is a private K-12 school in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2015. See the visual interactive. Editor's Note: NPR photojournalist David Gilkey and journalist ...