As anyone who has been called out for hypocrisy by a small child knows, kids are exquisitely attuned to gaps between what grown-ups say and what grown-ups do. If you survey American parents about ...

Teachers in top-of-the-class Finland, for example, earn about the OECD average. But ensuring that the best stay in the classroom will probably, in most places, mean paying more.

In the early grades, U.S. schools value reading-comprehension skills over knowledge. The results are devastating, especially for poor kids.

Education Week‘s publisher started Teacher Magazine in 1989 with the aim of offering a more policy-oriented journal for classroom teachers. It lasted in print form until 2007.

Collaborative scholarship that spans academic disciplines has proved to be a difficult goal—until now. A relatively new program at the University of Colorado Boulder, called the Innovation Incubator, ...

Where teaching in most ordinary senses of the term is concerned, if a pupil’s response to a piece of teaching is yes, the student is saying something like “I see” or “I understand.” ...