"My job is to interact with kids," says Alonzo Nelson, Jr., who teaches high school math in Belleville, Illinois. "I miss the human element of it" After almost a year-and-a-half t eaching classes via ...

For students of color, having a teacher with the same race or ethnicity has shown to improve test scores and reduce the likeliness of disciplinary issues. Yet only 20% of educational leaders in the ...

Each August I make a point of stopping by Wahpeton High School and talk with the district’s new teachers and staff during ...

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 ...

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