The Los Angeles Unified School District and its teachers union have reached what is being called a “historic” tentative agreement to incorporate s...

A new study has found that frontloading teacher salaries —that is, awarding larger raises early in a teacher’s career and smaller raises later —...

After making the controversial decision to cut teacher pay and 65 staff members -- including 37 teachers -- in favor of providing students with a lapt...

Lockland School District superintendent Donna Hubbard has been put on paid administrative leave amid allegations of shady enrollment bookkeeping that ...

An agreement between the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles teachers' union has been reached that would for the first time includ...

In our school and in education generally, we're like an orchestra of competent musicians who lack a score; we can each play well, but we're seldom playing the same thing at the same time, or looking to the same conductor.

Teacher pay in Ohio will be partially linked to student test scores as a result of legislation signed by Republican Gov. John Kasich, CNN reports. ...

We have never heard more policy rhetoric about developing, recruiting and retaining strong teachers. Ironically, our policies have also never done more to ensure that good teachers have little incentive to serve and stay in those schools.

In the latest iteration of the "cult of accountability," a state court allowed New York City to release performance reports for thousands of teachers and share them with the public.

Using test results to drive teacher and leader effectiveness is akin to poking the raw batter with a toothpick. Which is why it hasn't worked and is not going to.

We too often oversimplify important, complex issues in education and rely on testing in ways it wasn't designed to be used by people that don't really understand that.