GREENFIELD — While most teachers show their students how to simplify problems, Amy Fletcher likes to teach her students how to make the simplest tasks more complicated.

On Monday morning at Magness Creek Elementary School in Cabot, students in the fourth grade put their lessons into motion by creating machines to do simple tasks, such as the milk and cereal ...

In flipped learning, students acquaint themselves with new content and practice skills ahead of class via activities developed by their teacher and posted online. When class convenes, time that once ...

The students borrowed coffee makers, toasters, waffle irons, pancake griddles and even cereal and milk to create their Rube Goldberg machines — a complex and creative way to achieve simple tasks.

BRADENTON, Fla. -- A simple project making toy cars for kids overseas is teaching students at Southeast High School a valuable lesson. The students are learning how to make things better when they ...