Rather than have students memorize definitions and facts about a science topic such as light, an effective first grade teacher today would have students investigate various types of objects under ...

Sponsored content by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and American Federation of Teachers. Some see us as education’s odd couple—one, the president of a democratic teachers’ union; the other, a ...

A study of teacher evaluation in five charter schools from Morgaen L. Donaldson with Heather G. Peske. Teacher evaluation and charter schools feature prominently in President Barack Obama’s proposals ...

Effective school leaders could make the biggest impact by having their best staff teaching the youngest children, according to the results of a new study. While a widespread practice among school ...

A student’s achievement is partially influenced by a teacher other than his or her own, a recent study found. When an effective teacher joins a grade-level teaching team, students’ learning across the ...

What's the single best idea to jumpstart job creation? Americans are currently engaging in a spirited debate over how to improve our schools. I believe this national conversation will lead to ...

The National Council on Teacher Quality, a research and policy group that advocates for more-rigorous teacher preparation, has named Heather Peske as its new president. Peske will take over the helm ...

Score one for Michelle Rhee and performance pay. A study released Wednesday of the controversial teacher evaluation system that Rhee initiated when she was chancellor of the District of Columbia ...

Brian Cambourne is affiliated with the International Reading Association and the Australian Literacy Educators Association. In 1982, the late, great NZ reading researcher Marie Clay identified a group ...

We don’t know exactly how much money was spent training Will in his first year of Teach for America, but we know it was a lot. We would guess the total sum is above $50,000, a figure that includes ...

After almost a whole career in the classroom, I’m making the transition to teaching remotely. I’ve been biased against online teaching since before it was invented, so the transition has been a ...