Just four days after the deadly mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder rejected a bill Tuesday that would...

Ohio educators responded with tempered support to the American Federation of Teachers' call for a more stringent exam, which has been likened to the b...

WASHINGTON — Schoolteachers should have to pass a stringent exam – much like the bar exam for lawyers – before being allowed to ente...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. In the swing states of Ohio and Florida, it's crunch time for teachers unions, which in th...

SEATTLE — Kristine Nannini spent her summer creating wall charts and student data sheets for her fifth grade class – and making $24,000 on...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. NBC's third annual Education Nation summit kicked off Sunday with a foc...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. The Chicago teachers strike, which ended Tuesday after more than a week...

After a marathon session in Chicago's Hilton hotel, rank and file members of the Chicago Teachers Union spilled into the street at midnight central ti...

CHICAGO — Educators in Los Angeles just signed a new deal with the city's school district. So, too, did teachers in Boston. Both require perform...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. The head of one of the country's largest teachers unions knows all too well the frustratio...

Labor Day means many things to many people -- back to school, the end of summer, a needed respite from the daily grind. For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound.

Education wars -- two words that should never be strung together -- are far too common in the United States. The primary casualties of such conflicts, as well as of mounting education cuts and misguided "reforms," are our students.

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. Mitt Romney’s pick of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his vice presidentia...

By James B. Kelleher DETROIT, July 31 (Reuters) - In the maelstrom of criticism surrounding America's unionized public teachers, the w...

The country’s two largest teachers' unions -- the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers -- spent a combined $330 mi...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. As the 2012 election season intensifies, the country's two national teachers' unions are e...

When teachers and other school employees work collaboratively with administrators and others on school improvement, students do better.

As a University of Chicago scholar, Tony Bryk repeatedly produced local research of national importance. He combined skills in experimental design with incisive insight.

In America, a great public education is our primary opportunity agent for a better future. Yet as our economic struggles have reminded us, educational opportunity and economic prospects are inextricably linked.

In the eyes of Steven Brill, the American Federation of Teachers building a website attacking Michelle Rhee and masking its origins is worse than Rhee...

We at Parent Revolution cannot march together with AFT until AFT stops pretending that parent involvement is the same thing as parent empowerment.

After yesterday’s Dropout Nation report on the American Federation of Teachers’ Parent Trigger presentation, the union’s has responded with a st...