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 ...

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 ...

A new Web site gives users instant access to teacher-contract data in the nation’s 50 largest school districts, but teachers’ unions are warning against taking some of the information at face value.

Connecting teachers to their students—and vice versa—remains one of the thorniest problems for state longitudinal data systems, both technically and politically, and more states and districts seem to ...

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 ...

The Houston Chronicle analyzed salary records from more than 365,000 full-time teachers across the state of Texas to learn more about how educators in different school districts and with different ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Eleven states now ...

A state-by-state audit of the nation’s only database for tracking teacher misconduct is being ordered in the wake of a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation that found thousands of missing names in the ...

California can hardly afford to give up $6 million. Yet that’s what the federal government is rightly demanding. The U.S. Department of Education wants its money back because the state failed to use ...