Inexperienced teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are more likely to be assigned to students who on average are six months behind thei...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report and WNYC's SchoolBook. Tiferes Bnos is an all-girls school located on the first floor of an...

We cannot begin to fix our education system until we get everyone in power to recognize the falseness of the military-corporate-education analogy, until we accept the absolute stupidity of executive-ruled schools.

This story comes to us courtesy of California's EdSource Extra. The release last month of "value-added" rankings of New York City teachers based on...

All around this country, families are trying to figure out why their small children already dread going to a place that was supposed to serve as a gentle transition to formal learning.

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. New York City schools erupted in controversy last week when the school district released i...

We have a lot of problems in K-12 education to address. Let's be grateful that we can take "closing the teacher effectiveness gap" off our to-do list.

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. It is the first in a series in a collaboration between The Hechinger Report and Memphis Comme...

Just in time for the law's 10th anniversary this past Sunday, House Republicans led by Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.) have released draft legislation for r...

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. In Washington, D.C., one of the first places in the country to use value-added teacher r...

I'll say it again -- this can't be "us" versus "them." The most important "them" in education reform is the students, and it must be all of us for all of them.

Everyone has an opinion about what's wrong with the education system. Now, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is calling on you to provide the solutions. From...

The L.A. Times has not been simply reporting on teacher evaluations or ratings. It has been creating them and publicizing them.

Fix or replace? The answer is both. The U.S. is rapidly falling behind the rest of the industrial world. We need to work inside and outside the system. We need rapid reform and reinvention.

I am appalled that such deplorable inequity can coexist in New York, a city that shares everything from its name to its school system.

How much is a good teacher worth? Some would say they're priceless, but recent findings in the National Bureau of Economic Research's The Economic Val...

SEATTLE — Adults may be a little surprised by some of the preliminary findings of new research on what makes a great teacher. How do you find t...

UPDATE: According to the New York City Department of Education, the planned release of the reports is in response to Freedom of Information Law (FOIL)...