Is pouring money into smaller class sizes the answer to Michigan’s education crisis? Lawmakers seem to think so. They’ve proposed spending hikes as a way to reverse the downward performance trend in ...

The publication of A Nation at Risk (ANAR) in 1983 was the defining moment of the “first wave” of education reform. It articulated improbably long-lived insights that continue to define education ...

The Calvin faculty will be helping teachers from two Grand Rapids-area schools assign more writing and teach writing more effectively. The project is focused on writing across the curriculum: ...

Aspiring teachers come to the profession with a wealth of life experience that shapes their training, their work in the classroom, and their longevity in the occupation, says the author of the new ...

If you didn’t know any better, you might mistake Jan Koop for an elementary school teacher or administrator. Koop, a mathematics professor at Calvin College, spends a lot of time in local elementary ...

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. The idea that ...

While there may not be a consensus of what is meant by teacher quality, it is possible to derive a tripartite definition of teacher quality from the five high-performing education systems — Shanghai, ...

Great schools demand great teachers. And in recent years, Georgia has spent billions of dollars, in fits and starts, to increase teacher quality. Yet we’re not where we need to be. Far from it.

One thing we can all agree on is that we want our children to succeed. We need all children to have an opportunity to succeed to build the strong communities we want. Despite our common values, most ...

A top national education magazine has given Wyoming another low mark for improving teacher quality. Education Week gave the state a "D-" in the category, up from an "F" last year. That means that ...

Samuel Ogbuku, managing director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has said that initiatives focused on teachers' ...