Teacher Quality/Effectiveness
Read more about efforts to improve teachers’ skills and the standards used to evaluate those skills
Teaching Profession
Test Questions
Aspiring teachers in Massachusetts became the butt of jokes when more than half failed a new series of tests. But many are wondering if the tests themselves measure up.
School Choice & Charters
Public Prefers Competent Teachers to Other Reforms, Survey Finds
While policymakers and pundits hotly debate the merits of vouchers, national tests, and limiting class sizes, the American public is more interested in the qualifications of the people who work most closely with students, a survey shows.
Teaching Profession
States Anteing Up Supplements To Teachers Certified by Board
Karen Huff has agreed to put her teaching skills under the microscope this school year.
Teaching Profession
Riley, Goals Panel Take Aim At Promoting Teacher Quality
As school systems face the challenge of record-high enrollments along with concerns about current or predicted teacher shortages, education policy leaders are urging states not to lose sight of the need to improve instruction.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Investing in Teaching
We still have a long way to go, but the subject of teacher quality has climbed to the top of the reform agenda.
Teaching Profession
Teaching Matters
The single most important strategy for achieving America's education goals is to recruit, prepare, and support excellent teachers for every school, concludes a report released last month by a prestigious national commission.
Teaching
Opinion
What Is Good Teaching?
What's needed is a better system to ensure that teachers are ready for the challenges that await them.
School & District Management
Opinion
Bringing Theory into the Classroom
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 marked the
beginning of the flow of billions of dollars that would be spent on
programs to improve achievement in basic skills.
Student Well-Being & Movement
Opinion
A Modest Proposal To Restore Educational Standards
Seven years ago, Modesto City Schools was a typical California school system: poor but hip. In the name of innovation and relevancy, we suspended all common sense and embraced the fashionable twaddle of John Holt, Herb Kohl, A.S. Neill, Jonathan Kozol, Edgar Friedenberg, and others. We came pretty close to substituting the Seven Deadly Sins for the Eight Cardinal Principles.