This post is by Elizabeth Leisy Stosich, research and policy fellow at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE). The teaching force is changing, with a larger proportion of ...

When students are allowed to redo assignments the benefits can include a deeper understanding of the content, increased ...

With the mission of forging greater educator effectiveness and equity, non-profit New Teacher Center (NTC) has been working for two decades on establishing a comprehensive professional learning ...

Teaching is about connection: Connecting theory with practice, connecting what you read in a book or discuss in a classroom with what happens in the real world. Most of all, it’s about connecting with ...

Unsolicited and ill-informed advice on how experts should do their job rarely lands well. Bearing that in mind, unless you've spent years in classrooms full of students, working against the demands of ...

As districts continue to gear up for a new school year, many are facing the realities of a nationwide teaching shortage. The Learning Policy Institute estimates that the United States could face a ...

Journal of Science Teacher Education, Vol. 29, No. 4 (June 2018), pp. 283-306 (24 pages) The teaching of socioscientific issues (SSI) holds promise for advancing functional scientific literacy, ...

In the wake of the Miramonte child abuse scandal, the Los Angeles school district took unprecedented steps to better protect students: Hundreds of teachers were removed from classrooms, an ...

Many children’s earliest memories of classroom Thanksgiving activities consist of donning black construction paper pilgrim caps or Native American-inspired feathered headbands for a reconstruction of ...