Teachers’ unions, long defenders of the teaching profession, are now putting their own spin on an often-criticized component: teacher preparation. The Washington Education Association is in its first ...

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that only one in eight elementary teacher preparation programs nationwide devote enough time to teaching fundamental math content ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s no secret that America’s teaching pool is a fraction of the size it once was 15 years ago, hard hit by the Great Recession ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But if classroom instruction isn’t improving, we shouldn’t be surprised that test scores are stagnant or dropping. How teachers ...

With dozens of states mandating changes to how reading is taught, requiring schools to use evidence-based methods, many teachers have asked the same question: Why didn’t I learn any of this in my ...

Your article “Training Teachers for a Marathon” countering UCSB Teacher Education Program’s failing grade by National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), prompted a sense of dread as well as a need to ...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House on Friday passed a measure that supporters say is designed to keep “identity politics” out of teacher preparation programs that lead to educators getting professional ...