Teacher Quality/Effectiveness
Read more about efforts to improve teachers’ skills and the standards used to evaluate those skills
Education Funding
Report Roundup
Teacher Pay
In an attempt to make wages fair and transparent, are salary schedules creating other types of inequities? That's the case made by a new report by the Brookings Institution.
Student Well-Being & Movement
News in Brief
Minn. Board Says It's Not Required to Report Teachers' Sexual Misconduct
The board that has authority over teaching licenses in Minnesota says it's not legally obligated to report allegations of teachers' sexual misconduct or inappropriate behavior to law enforcement.
Recruitment & Retention
How Can Teaching Be More Selective and More Diverse at the Same Time?
Educators discussed ways to increase both the diversity and selectivity of the teaching profession at a Center for American Progress event on Thursday.
Teacher Preparation
More States Are Making It Easier to Transfer Your Teaching License
Since 2016, 11 states eased their regulations around teacher license reciprocity, according to a new analysis of regulations from all 50 states.
Equity & Diversity
Teaching: Some Global Comparisons
A 50-nation study finds that U.S. teachers spend more time teaching than those in other countries. And they make 60 cents for every $1 paid to workers with similar education levels.
College & Workforce Readiness
Can Minority-Serving Colleges Help Create a More-Diverse Teaching Force?
A new network is working to make minority-serving institutions a major player in efforts to diversify the profession.
Teaching Profession
News in Brief
New Mexico Releases Latest Results of Controversial Teacher-Review System
About 74 percent of public school teachers in New Mexico are rated as effective or better when it comes to their success in the classroom.
Teaching Profession
News in Brief
New York Lowers Cutoff Score on Teacher-Licensing Exam
New York's board of regents last week approved changes to its teacher-certification process, including lowering the passing score on its licensure exam. It is one of more than a dozen states that uses the Teacher Performance Assessment, or edTPA, as its licensure test. For the edTPA, candidates submit video...
Teaching Profession
Fla. Teachers' Union Sues State, Ed. Dept., and Districts Over Teacher Bonus Program
The program awards teachers who are rated "highly effective" on their evaluations—as long as their SAT or ACT scores are in the 80th percentile or above.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Teachers' Pay: What On Earth Are We Thinking?
With the U.S. facing the largest pay gap between teachers and similar professionals of any country surveyed by the OECD, Marc Tucker asks when we will finally address the embarrassingly obvious.
Teaching Profession
Let Teachers Lead, and Other Ideas for Making Evaluations More Useful
A new brief offers strategies for improving how administrators provide feedback on teachers' performance, including letting teachers lead their own debriefing sessions.
Education Funding
Report Roundup
Teacher Pay
Teachers who work at high-poverty schools and with mostly students of colorare paid less than their peers at affluent schools with mostly white students—but the disparity is worse than people think, argues a new paper from Bellwether Education Partners.
Equity & Diversity
Report Roundup
School Diversity
Educators show the same unconscious bias favoring white people as the general U.S. population and use slightly lower academic standards when evaluating black students, finds a new study in the latest issue of the British Journal of Educational Psychology.
Recruitment & Retention
Districts Turn to Emergency Measures for Hard-to-Staff Teaching Posts
Across the country, school districts are trying new tactics to avoid starting this school year with an empty teacher's desk, including hiring parents and calling veteran teachers out of retirement.