Universal screeners are assessments for learning that measure student proficiency with grade-level content. They generally are administered periodically throughout the year and used to assess content ...

Last week, my children joined the nation’s 50 million students in the annual back-to-school ritual: feeling those butterflies of excitement at seeing school friends after summer vacation, choosing a ...

A student reviews a reading comprehension assignment in a third grade class in Wake County. Scott Sharpe ssharpe@newsobserver.com North Carolina leaders who want to change how teachers are paid ...

Almost since the day the No Child Left Behind Act became law eight years ago, teacher-quality advocates have complained about the insufficiency of its rules for staffing classrooms with “highly ...

If states were students, they'd barely be passing their classes on teacher policies. Across the country, the average state teacher policy grade for this year is C-. Nobody in the class of 51 ...

Corrected: This story has been updated with the current title for Jay P. Greene, a professor of education policy at the University of Arkansas. Student feedback, test-score growth calculations, and ...

Teachers play a crucial role in fostering children’s success in school. Policymakers must consider ways to support and prepare high-quality teachers while aligning expectation and opportunities for ...

GREELEY — For Terace Viney, a first-year teacher at John Evans Middle School, documenting her effectiveness as an educator begins with recognizing what works. But that’s only part of the process.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Devonna Spease walked into her freshman ...

“We do look if they went to a strong teacher prep program, but it isn’t all that we look at.” He says teacher prep programs are important, but so, too, is the professional development that teachers ...

At one New Jersey school, the average teacher has more than 26 years in the classroom. See where your school ranks.