Report from Robin Chait outlines six state strategies for attracting and retaining effective teachers in high-poverty and high-minority schools. More on attracting effective teachers to high-poverty ...

Effective school leaders could make the biggest impact by having their best staff teaching the youngest children, according to the results of a new study. While a widespread practice among school ...

Authors C. Kirabo Jackson and Elias Bruegmann based their findings on an analysis of 11 years of data on North Carolina schoolchildren. The study is due to be published in October in the American ...

Experts say the success of school technology initiatives increasingly hinges on whether districts can develop coherent, sustained professional learning sessions.

Eric Takyi had taught undergraduates in his native Ghana, but teaching in America was a different story. In Ghana, he didn’t think much about pedagogy or make an effort to spruce up dry lectures, ...

Tennessee’s overhaul of teacher evaluation in 2011 led to sharp backlash and higher teacher turnover in the immediate aftermath, but a new study in the American Educational Research Journal finds that ...

Rather than have students memorize definitions and facts about a science topic such as light, an effective first grade teacher today would have students investigate various types of objects under ...

A study of teacher evaluation in five charter schools from Morgaen L. Donaldson with Heather G. Peske. Teacher evaluation and charter schools feature prominently in President Barack Obama’s proposals ...

(Editor’s note: This article is the third in a three-part series about how school systems can build on the progress and leverage the investments they’ve made in technology during the pandemic to ...

You know what would improve Arizona schools more than anything? Classrooms filled with highly effective teachers. I know. Duh. But the research is clear: Students who have effective teachers perform ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – Teachers in the Florida school district hit hardest by Hurricane Michael two weeks ago are not necessarily ready to go back to class — not when some of them are sleeping in ...