The challenges of America’s education system are reaching crisis levels, and districts need to think differently about school ...
LAWRENCE — How do you teach someone to be a teacher? And what does it mean to be a professional educator? Those questions are at the heart of a new book from a University of Kansas educator and author ...
Alexandra Robbins' The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession opens with this line: "You may think you know what's inside, but you don't." And Robbins delivers on this ...
As teacher job-satisfaction rates plummet and administrators fret about the potential for higher turnover rates, it’s more important than ever for teachers to tell their stories. That’s one of the ...
Teachers face “inadequate workplace support and resources, unmanageable workload, high-stakes testing, time pressure, unsupported disruptive students, lack of cooperative time with colleagues, and a ...
Education, said child advocate Marian Wright Edelman, is about improving the lives of others and leaving your community and world better than you found it. As a sixth-grade teacher for more than 20 ...
Some parts of this picture are clearer than others. Teachers are dissatisfied, students are struggling, and the future of education looks grim. Those are some of the findings of the Pew Research ...
The author goes back to her earlier work on professionalization, in which she argued that aspiring professions aim at converting one order of scarce resources into another: credentials, as proxies for ...
Read a teaching-focused book with the CTL. Book clubs typically meet weekly and discuss the text as well as ways we can apply this understanding in our own classrooms and lives. Book clubs are open to ...
New episode! Our guest host, Quentin Schultze (Professor Emeritus, Calvin University) interviews Kuyers Institute director David I. Smith about his new book, Everyday Christian Teaching: A Guide to ...