This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. Mississippi will probably not fund or create public pre-kindergarten op...

TWIN FALLS -- Even though voters overturned the Students Come First laws, teachers who earned merit pay during the last school year can expect a payme...

In its first post-recession public schools budget proposal, the Alabama Board of Education approved Thursday a recommendation to funnel $4.1 billion t...

Craig Barrett has expressed strong opinions on Arizona's education system. In 2011, Barrett, former chief executive of Intel, told lawmakers and busi...

An Orange County charter school that gave its principal a $519,000 departure payout was an academic failure that struggled to provide its students wit...

Both presidential candidates have spoken to the importance of great teachers and their appreciation for influential educators -- a lot. But even as...

The American Federation of Teachers public employees division recently issued its annual "State Employee Compensation Survey," which determined that e...

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

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...

As Chicago's teachers enter their third day of protests, neighboring Lake Forest educators took to their own picket lines after contract negotiations ...

As part of its “Opportunity Culture” initiative to help close achievement gaps and meet rising global education standards, Public Impact used fina...

The Southern California science teacher who was placed on administrative leave last month for a former career as a porn actress once spoke openly abou...

The Harrison reforms started with superintendent Mike Miles asking a question: If 80 percent of my budget is devoted to salaries, shouldn't salaries be linked to performance? Sounds logical, but in the school world, that's radical thinking.

The struggle to make sure a quality education is available to every child -- and not just a privilege for a few -- is the unfinished and critical business before the nation for it will determine America's future place on the global stage in a rapidly changing competitive world.

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday spelled out details of a proposed new $5 billion Race to the Top-style competition foc...

FRESNO, Calif. -- The school superintendent in California who is forgoing hundreds of thousands of dollars in pay and benefits to help offset budget c...

Note: Michael Bromley, a teacher in Washington, DC, is guest-posting this week. My colleagues groan when I say it, and then tell me to shut up: tea...

Amid nationwide criticism of their profession, teachers are staging "grade-ins" at local malls to demonstrate what educators do in their time off. T...

ATLANTA — An overwhelming majority of Americans are frustrated that it's too difficult to get rid of bad teachers, while most also believe that ...