Illustration by Nurul Hana Anwar. Skokie, Ill.1 This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The young ...

Editor’s Note: In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 years of experience. In recent years, that number is closer to just three years leading a classroom. The “On Teaching” series focuses on the ...

Will teaching be an attractive job in the years ahead? Will it arouse the interest of would-be teachers to move into that field or will it have the same fate as its counterpart in England where the ...

In today’s classrooms, teaching Black history has become a challenge at best—and a dangerous proposition at worst. In many states, politicians have demanded teachers alter their curriculum over fears ...

When I first started teaching, the open space of a 50- or 75-minute class period seemed an eternity. Like many a new faculty member, I worried about having enough material. I wanted to ensure that, if ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ted Ladd teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Harvard and Hult. As students head back to campus, teachers face an ...

The information below is intended as an aid for students interested in teaching opportunities in the Department of Economic History, and provides answers to those questions that are most commonly ...

When I taught about social class in my Intimacy, Marriages and Families course this past semester, I began with reflection and a sticky note, not with a lecture or statistics. This wasn’t the first ...

In the years that she’s been teaching at Spring Hill High School in Chapin, S.C., Sumner Bender’s theater classes have typically been capped at 25 students. This year, though, she started with an ...