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 ...

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eric Takyi had taught undergraduates in his native Ghana, but teaching in America was a different story. In Ghana, he didn’t think much about pedagogy or make an effort to spruce up dry lectures, ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Data shows some public charter schools, where the teacher workforce is smaller, often have lower effectiveness ratings, with ...