How does Singapore view the importance of a world-class teaching profession? How has its government responded? What progress has been made to date? What are Singapore's next steps to advance the teaching profession in the 21st century?
America needs a more diverse teaching force, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says.
In an interview with CNN's Steve Perry, Duncan addressed the la...
If America does not start today in filling its teacher ranks with the best and brightest students, in 10 years we may find our students are behind those in Kyrgyzstan.
Our school is not simply lucky to have great teachers; finding them, supporting them, and keeping them is all by design, and serves as a blueprint for similar success.
In an effort to recruit more teachers, the Department of Education recently launched the TEACH campaign.
Duncan joined My Fox DC this morning to disc...
Countries with the best-performing school systems largely recruit teachers from the top third of high school and college graduates, while the United S...
To inspire Americans to seek out employment opportunities in education, the White House launched the TEACH Campaign last week.
According to the Teach...
The assertion that we don't know what makes good teachers before trying them out for a few years while measuring their students' test gains is simply not true.
Reforming America's inadequate public school system--a crucial priority for our country's future-- should not be undertaken with a failed ideology. Th...
Throughout the campaign, Obama has laid out workable plans to address our education crisis, but perhaps nowhere is his aim more dead-on than his campaign for recruiting and retaining good teachers.