As I’ve noted many times (see, for instance, here, here, and here), some corners in schooling today are marked by a bizarre enthusiasm for low expectations. This has fueled a push to eliminate ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

As another school year begins many wonder how much learning was lost last year without consistent in-person instruction and how to help students to “catch up.” While some might attribute academic ...

DE PERE (WLUK) --It's a different kind of exposure. That's how Dr. Reid Riggle, co-chair of the teacher education program at St. Norbert College describes student teaching experiences for the upcoming ...

How do expectations, particularly teacher expectations, affect students in the U.S.? Are standards high enough? Does Common Core, which has been adapted by some states, set the bar too high? These are ...

Three committees charged by Provost Alec D. Gallimore with improving teaching and supporting innovative academic structures wrapped up their first semester of work in December. The committees — ...

It’s hard to think of an easier target for outrage than a principal bent on “dumbing down” his school. A headline on such a dishonest shortchanger of unwitting children can draw righteous indignation ...

California is moving closer to eliminating the unpopular Reading Instruction Competence Assessment for teachers and replacing it with a performance assessment based on a new set of literacy standards ...

If you cannot meet your class or recitation for any reason (e.g., illness, family emergency), contact the course instructor as soon as you know this. Together you will work out a plan for covering ...

You get an idea of Becky Satterly as a teacher when she identifies her crowning professional achievement as the time students voted her as the teacher most likely to be on a reality television show.

After teaching in elementary, middle, and high school science classes, and directing the science teachers and curriculum for a 35,000 student district, I’ve concluded that our modern methods of ...