Recruitment & Hiring
Learn more about efforts to attract school and district staff and choose the best candidate for the job
The State of Teaching, 2025 Edition
New national data on the teaching profession, vivid reporting from classrooms, and resources to help support this essential profession.
Special Education
New Global Fellowship Launched to Train Teacher-Coaches
Teach For All, a network in 34 countries, is focusing a new, two-year fellowship on students with what it terms "learning differences."
Recruitment & Retention
Opinion
Recruit and Retain or Attract and Engage?
Should you recruit and retain staff or attract and engage them? Is this just a shift in semantics or an important change for 2014 and beyond?
Law & Courts
N.C. Districts, Teachers Sour on State's Anti-Tenure Law
In return for abolishing tenure, lawmakers are making districts offer raises to a quarter of their teachers, a quota administrators' and teachers' associations are protesting.
Recruitment & Retention
Opinion
Are You Likeable? Your Success May Depend On It!
Are You Likeable? You success may depend on it as "likeability" can have an important impact on everything from marriage to job interviews to healthcare.
Recruitment & Retention
Opinion
Recruiters Aren't Just Looking at Your Resume
Recruiters are not just looking at your resume anymore, they're checking out your Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn pages. What kind of things do you post and how is that making a difference in your job-future?
Teaching Profession
Lawmaker's Retirement to Open K-12 Leadership Void
U.S. Rep. George Miller, leaving Congress after four decades, helped push through game-changing legislation, including the No Child Left Behind Act.
Recruitment & Retention
Opinion
PISA 2012: Global Lessons on Prioritizing
Guest blogger, Naima Khandaker, explores the 2012 PISA results and dives into how high-performing systems are prioritizing their resources in order to be successful.
Recruitment & Retention
Companies Offer Big Data Tools to Predict Teacher Candidates' Impact
Two companies have launched new algorithm-based screening tools they believe can predict the impact teacher candidates will have on student performance.
School & District Management
Hawaii Principal Makes Most of Race to Top Aid
At Keaau High School on Hawaii's "Big Island," the principal utilized federal Race to the Top money to help turn around a low-performing school.
School & District Management
Building a Bench of Strong Principals: What Would It Take?
Too few educators aspire to the principalship, says Bain & Co., in a new report that lays out some strategies for fixing that problem.
School & District Management
IES' Next Challenge: Finding New Statistics Chief
Sean P. "Jack" Buckley's departure opens up a tough-to-fill hole for the Institute of Education Sciences, an agency that has had several long vacancies.
Student Well-Being & Movement
K-12, Colleges Swept Up in Health-Care Debate
Concerns about the potential cost of providing support staff and hourly employees with health coverage came up at a congressional hearing on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Federal
Ed. Department, Gates Plans for Teachers Converge
Observers see considerable alignment between the teacher-quality agendas of the private foundation and the federal agency. In fact, several top department officials came from the philanthropy.
Teaching Profession
D.C. Teachers Improved After Overhaul of Evaluations, Pay
The closely-watched system for evaluating teachers and providing bonus pay in the District of Columbia appears to be motivating weak and strong educators alike to higher performance.