Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Shelby Harris, a seventh-grade math teacher at Kuna Middle School, Idaho, ...

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 ...

At a recent dinner party, surrounded by lawyers, engineers, and data scientists, I heard myself say that “I’m just a teacher.” I said it with embarrassment, knowing I was in a room full of people who ...

New teachers often feel unprepared for the intensity of their new careers. They face a multitude of challenges almost immediately upon joining, from managing student behavior to lesson planning, and ...

Teachers are a central figure in our lives, if only because almost all of us have had direct experience with quite a number of them. Americans are a highly diverse group of people, but our memories of ...

It’s fairly easy to know if your child’s teacher is a good person. You can observe the teacher’s demeanor at open houses and parent-teacher conferences throughout the year. You can also ask other ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carrie Lukas, a mother of five, is president of Independent Women. Removing needless red tape and ideology in the teaching ...

The federal and state governments’ new “Be That Teacher” campaign aims to boost enrolments in teaching degrees by raising the status of teachers. It uses a diverse range of real teachers talking about ...