Think big, she writes. For now, plan grandly, not precisely. Think about the things students need to know for the next decade, not the...

How do children learn to read? Most states don’t require new elementary and special-education teachers to show they understand the...

Enrollment is down at teachers’ prep programs, reports Ed Week‘s Madeline Will, but there’s still a surplus of would-be elementary...

The most effective teachers are the most likely to ask colleagues for advice on improving their teaching, according to a recently...

Roxanna Elden’s Adequate Yearly Progress is an entertaining — and often infuriating — novel about a Texas high school coping with a...

Only five percent of high school students who took the ACT in 2017 plan to major in education, according to a new ACT report. That makes...

A Chinese high school installed cameras that monitor students’ facial expressions, reports Don Lee in the Los Angeles Times. Artificial...

San Francisco spent $54 million to build and equip a new STEM-focused middle school to serve low-income black students — and lure...

High school students observe a moment of silence outside the North Carolina Capitol in Raleigh in memory of the victims of the Florida...

Teacher-effectiveness programs funded by the Gates Foundation didn’t improve students’ achievement, reports Madeline Will in Ed Week. A...

The switch to Common Core instruction was annoying, intriguing, inconsistent and sometimes unnoticeable, concludes a survey of 54...

At a Columbus, Ohio school in a high-poverty neighborhood, teachers use different strategies to help children learn to calm themselves,...

A Muncie, Indiana teacher told her kindergarten class that “two plus two equals four . . . no matter how anyone feels about it,” reports...

Teachers teach better than students, writes Alex Tabarrok on Marginal Revolution. “A slew of research shows that direct instruction...

Educators are obsessed with innovation, while ignoring the tried and true, writes Mike Schmoker in Education Week. For example, “ongoing...

Being “the worst” in his weight-lifting class made Ryan Sprott a better teacher, he writes on Ed Week Teacher. “Remembering what failure...

A high school teacher might see eight to 30 students a day with serious mental health issues such as bipolar disorder, depression and...

Olga Khazan take a whack at the learning styles myth in The Atlantic. In the early ‘90s, a New Zealander named Neil Fleming developed the...

Students and parents disrespect teachers, complained Julie Marburger in a Facebook post that went viral. She teaches sixth grade in a...

Teaching teachers the “basic science of learning” probably would improve teaching and student outcomes, writes Dan Willingham in...