This approach helps strengthen understanding and relevance, but teachers should be intentional in teeing up the assignments, education professors say.

Sabra Sowell-Lovejoy, an English, social studies, and food production teacher in the tiny Campo school district, helps students develop recipes with homegrown veggies.

Transfix co-founder Drew McElroy explains how running its own brokerage formed the basis for its TMS. The interview covers the 2014 founding, the decade of operations and the later transition to ...