Report from Robin Chait outlines six state strategies for attracting and retaining effective teachers in high-poverty and high-minority schools. More on attracting effective teachers to high-poverty ...

Teachers across Michigan’s K-12 schools are almost universally considered effective in annual evaluations reported to the ...

If good math policies are the ingredients, qualified math teachers are the chefs serving students an opportunity to compete ...

Rather than have students memorize definitions and facts about a science topic such as light, an effective first grade teacher today would have students investigate various types of objects under ...

CAP experts discuss the need for holistic and comprehensive teacher evaluation systems so students don’t lose out. For more of this event, click here. The United States is currently failing many of ...

Authors C. Kirabo Jackson and Elias Bruegmann based their findings on an analysis of 11 years of data on North Carolina schoolchildren. The study is due to be published in October in the American ...

Experts say there’s no set number of hours, but quality, relevance and ongoing support — returning to the same skills throughout the year and connecting PD to student and teacher outcomes — matter far ...

On a programming note, the Teacher Beat blog will no longer be publishing new articles—but don’t worry, Education Week’s coverage of teacher policy will continue. (See Editor-in-Chief Scott Montgomery ...

(Editor’s note: This article is the third in a three-part series about how school systems can build on the progress and leverage the investments they’ve made in technology during the pandemic to ...

Effective school leaders could make the biggest impact by having their best staff teaching the youngest children, according to the results of a new study. While a widespread practice among school ...

Teachers who started their careers at the height of pandemic restrictions could end up being more effective as a result of their experiences, according to a new report. While new teachers suffered ...

You know what would improve Arizona schools more than anything? Classrooms filled with highly effective teachers. I know. Duh. But the research is clear: Students who have effective teachers perform ...