As millions of Ohio’s students lost learning from the chaos of the early pandemic and are now struggling with mental health problems, having experienced, quality teachers who can inspire students has ...

Wendy Kopp is the co-founder and CEO of Teach For All and founder of Teach For America. Fourth-grader Emmely is a bright and curious girl with big dreams of becoming a lawyer. But like many low-income ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...