When the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress scores were released at the beginning of this year, Alabama — ...

Last week, Education Week, Teacher Magazine’s sister publication, released Technology Counts 2006, its ninth annual survey of education technology. This year’s report, titled “The Information Edge,” ...

The president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, has weighed in on the Los Angeles Times’ value-added project. She agrees that parents, teachers, and principals have the right ...

Our school curriculum requires teaching students from 2nd grade on up how to use databases, but we're a bit uncertain what is a good program to use to teach them. Obviously Access is out of the ...

Terri L. Renner had long wondered what made some of her students succeed more than others. Maybe, thought Renner, a senior lecturer in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana ...

Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman, economists at Harvard, and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia co-wrote the recent study "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in ...