From paperwork to chaperoning to highly specific technical tasks—like changing HVAC filters to operating a security gate—America’s teachers say they take on a host of non-teaching duties. Their views ...

In Kakuma Refugee Camp, where thousands of individuals displaced by conflict struggle to rebuild their lives, education remains a fundamental challenge. Overcrowded classrooms, limited resources, and ...

For the first 10 years of my education career, I served as a full-time middle and high school language arts teacher. The work was always challenging, it was usually rewarding, and it kept me on my ...

A new interactive resource from the National Council on Teacher Quality calls into question the efficacy of the traditional classroom model, underscoring how it isn’t structured to help teachers ...

As a new semester rapidly approaches, and many of us look forward to returning to in-person classrooms with a mixture of anxiety and anticipation, this strikes me as an especially auspicious moment to ...

In our recent blogs, we have talked and talked … and talked and talked about 1-to-1. Dear reader, please brace thyself as this blog will again talk and talk about 1-to-1 — but with an important twist: ...

What does it mean to truly collaborate? For a group of teachers at my district last spring, it meant stepping outside their own roles and trying on someone else’s point of view. Collaboration can be a ...

Tsukuba, Japan—The number of Japanese language learners (JLL), children who speak a language other than Japanese and require Japanese language instruction, have been increasing significantly in ...

Teachers significantly influence students' character development by modeling discipline, kindness, and curiosity. They act as consistent adult figures, shaping values through their actions and ...

According to Michael Harrington and many other scholars, a careful reading of Marx's work makes it clear that he "regarded democracy as the essence of socialism." Soviet-style Communism, by contrast, ...