Here's to a job well done--or was it?

When those final essays are due in English class, the image that comes to mind is that of teachers with...

Report says chronic absenteeism is a problem; urban teachers issue 'captain obvious' award

A new report from Johns Hopkins University quantifies what teachers have always known--a lot of students are chronically absent. The...

Swaying with the breeze on teacher prep

In the May edition of Educational Leadership, Linda Darling-Hammond responds to the mounting calls for greater accountability of teacher preparation...

Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick blog

How NOT to appreciate teachers To show teacher appreciation - why not ditch indiscriminate staffing procedures? A teacher's perspective Preparing students...

Lawsuit in California takes an unusual approach

Students Matter, a non-profit created by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, recently filed a high-stakes lawsuit challenging California's teacher protection laws....

A Teacher's Perspective

Darryl Robinson's thought-provoking op-ed that ran last month in The Washington Post is sadly not a one-of-a-kind story. Darryl and...

New in TR3: School Restructuring and Redesign

We've added a school restructuring and redesign section to our TR3 database. The new section includes districts' policies on...

What teachers aren't learning about assessment...and we mean ANY kind of assessment

Standardized, smandardized -- the type of assessment is not the issue

State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Did you know?

Did you know that our website offers a trove of data from our State Teacher Policy Yearbook that's searchable by...

The cost of a buyout

Rubber rooms may have disappeared from headlines, but teachers are still languishing.

Let the Teachers Tell the Story

The power of song. Surely you know about the role of music and the Civil Rights Movement, and maybe even...

Early reading in the Rockies

What stands out to us is that students identified as having reading deficiencies two years in a row are to...

Do ed schools prepare teachers to use data on student learning?

The perspective of a recently graduated teacher

How much time do teachers get for collaboration?

Teaching one group of students subtraction and another multiplication -- the same day, in the same class -- is quite...

Don't overdo it on reading comprehension strategies

Before requiring students to make a graphic organizer--or other common comprehension strategies--teachers need to think twice, especially middle and high...