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Teacher salaries, cost of rent, and home prices: Can teachers afford to live where they teach?

Lack of affordable housing exacerbates the teacher staffing challenges that many school districts face.

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For CTE teachers, real-world experience matters

New research examines the impact of career and technical education teachers who entered the profession through different pathways.

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Do teachers keep improving over time?

Challenging some assumptions, perhaps, new data shows that veteran teachers continue to improve late into their careers.

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Gambling with children’s futures—and no one’s tracking whether we win or lose

Almost no one is tracking the impact recent policy decisions have on student learning and how they perpetuate educational inequity.

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Teacher leave policies: How much paid time off do teachers get?

When a teacher needs to take time off, what paid leave is available to them?

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What’s in a school? Would a teacher in any other setting be as effective?

The answer (perhaps less satisfying than policy wonks would like) is that It depends on the school context.

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What increasing seat belt use can teach us about strengthening math instruction

What if states applied the "seat belt" policy approach to solving our current mathematics education crisis?

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Seven strategies school districts are using to increase teacher diversity

Several school district leaders shared how they've accomplished recent gains in building a more diverse teacher workforce.

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An equity decision: Which teachers choose to teach which students?

New research looks into how teachers select or are selected into positions based on their preferences and those of the...

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New from Illinois: Whether and where teacher shortages exist, and how states can tell

New research from Illinois reiterates that the nature of the teacher shortage problem is one of inequity.

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Teacher prep matters; let’s start acting like it

Policymakers are overlooking teacher prep as a critical force in promoting teacher quality and better outcomes for students.

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Teacher layoffs may be coming. How do districts decide who to let go?

An analysis of layoff policies in 148 of the largest U.S. school districts explores how they may impact the teacher...

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What do NASA scientists, historians, and strong readers have in common? Content knowledge

I was recently reading a NASA article with my 12-year-old child about the dynamics of flight and was struck by...

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Teachers and students win from video-based professional coaching

Providing teachers with feedback—through a medium that allows them to explicitly see how they responded to various scenarios—could help teachers...

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How Black teachers make a difference

New research digs deeper into the well-documented positive impact that Black teachers have on students' academic and life outcomes.