HEA reauthorization: Will it improve teacher prep?
Five years after it was due, Congress has reauthorized the Higher Education Act. The push to move this legislation...
Five years after it was due, Congress has reauthorized the Higher Education Act. The push to move this legislation...
One problem inherent in letting outside groups take control of struggling schools is sustaining their initial enthusiasm and commitment. So...
Last month the California State Board of Education voted almost unanimously to soon require that all 8th grade students must...
Garden State education Commissioner Lucille Davy recently launched plans to crack down on diploma mills by requiring that educators earn...
Last month we reported on Charlotte-Mecklenburg Superintendent Peter Gorman's efforts to recruit some of his system?s top teachers to work...
Teachers most often cited dissatisfaction with their principal as the primary reason they left a school, according to a recent...
Among states and local school districts, there is tremendous variation in the ways that teachers get evaluated, both in terms...
Among the many stories regarding corporal punishment in schools that have been popping up as of late, there are reports...
by Emily Cohen, NCTQ Policy Analyst It?s time to revisit the rallying cry over collective bargaining agreements as school districts?...
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is insisting on a contract with teachers like no other in the nation?and the head...
From its rural offices in downstate Illinois, the Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) has turned upside down some commonly held...
If you thought the class size debate should have been over and done with years ago, researchers Thomas Dee and...
Teacher Pensions: A Background Paper is as straightforward as its title. In it, Janet S. Hansen presents a...
School districts in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina and Baldwin County, Alabama have begun keeping A-lists of their best teachers. In...
Economist Ray Fisman asks in a column why public schools are so bad at hiring good instructors. He finds...