Simple habits can transform students’ silence and hesitation into conversation and curiosity, making the university classroom ...

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 ...

These efficient feedback strategies support student learning without sacrificing a teacher's nights and weekends.

Does the UTeach program develop more effective STEM teachers than traditional teacher preparation programs? That was the question asked in a recent research project by the National Center for Analysis ...

Teachers across Michigan’s K-12 schools are almost universally considered effective in annual evaluations reported to the state, according to the latest data. However, that effectiveness rating may ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Effective teachers are the single most important in-school factor affecting student success, yet most public school pay ...