Wendy Kopp is the co-founder and CEO of Teach For All and founder of Teach For America. Fourth-grader Emmely is a bright and curious girl with big dreams of becoming a lawyer. But like many low-income ...

In the gymnasium of Two Rivers Dos Ríos Elementary School, hundreds of students and district and state officials gathered to celebrate Springfield special education teacher Sally Golden as she was ...

My last column on teacher standards focused on the how. How should we deliver professional development? How long? Which teachers? Who leads? They were recommendations for structural changes about the ...

Like most Kindergarten classrooms, Carol Espiritu’s is decorated with cheerfully colored posters illustrating the months and seasons, stacks of picture books and imaginative drawings. Espiritu’s tiny ...

For years, officials in the Fort Worth Independent School District used the same strategy to try to boost student achievement: Offer coaching and guidance to teachers and hope that, as they got better ...

"He's more than a teacher to me, he's a true friend". This confession by a high-school student, delivered anonymously, sounds like a confession. That of an ambiguous relationship, where the classic ...

Teachers need to give ourselves credit—it’s hard to get it from anywhere else these days. And as a lover of magazine quizzes (“What Shape Is Your Face?”; “Are You Eyebrow Savvy), I’ve decided to ...

Every year, Oregon Lottery and Oregon Department of Education select a Teacher of the Year. The winner receives $10,000 and another $5,000 for their school. Special education teacher Sally Golden of ...