This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. In 2012, new teacher-evaluation systems and merit pay spread across the country. Technolog...

Before stepping into her own classroom, Allison Brown wanted to be prepared for everything that becoming a teacher would throw at her. Planning and t...

Teachers are key to preparing for the inevitable job/skills disparity that arises in an ever-changing economy. Young job seekers need to be ready to adapt, which is what good teachers prepare them to do. Teachers create and fill jobs.

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...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. OAKLAND, Calif. -- Amy Youngman's seventh- and eighth-grade humanities students had left f...

If teachers are our number one resource, why do we treat them so poorly?

WASHINGTON -- Madeline Stevens knows what it's like to be a military brat. "The first week of school, it's really hard," said Stevens, a 17-year-old ...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. Twitter and Facebook might soon replace traditional professional develo...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. Helping struggling teachers improve has become a big concern–and a big business–across...

Most degree programs include one or possibly two courses focused on teaching students with mental health disabilities and subsequent challenging behaviors. This leaves teachers to learn on the job in a busy classroom.

By Stephanie Simon April 11 (Reuters) - Pity poor math. In the American drive to boost science and math education, it's...

"Our teachers in Finland are quite autonomous already. They are allowed to choose their methods and they are allowed to be creative."

Anyone teaching in a college could be automatically eligible to teach in high schools, according to a bill passed by the Tennessee state Senate Monday...

We need to make it more difficult to become a teacher, which we could do by raising standards for admission into training programs and then providing one-year apprenticeships before teachers are given their own classrooms.

In all this brouhaha about "quality teachers being the best predictor of student achievement," there is little discussion about how one becomes a quality teacher.

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

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for millions of dollars in new funding to improve math and science education, an effort he...

On January 1, 2012, educators nationwide lost an educational icon. Dr. Martin Haberman, long time researcher, educator, writer, and mentor to teachers, passed away in Milwaukee. And Dr. Haberman never wavered from his goal.