Last spring semester, I began experimenting with polling as a way to improve student participation in my classroom. Persuaded by the work of Eric Mazur and others, I started polling my students — ...

This conversation explores the complexities of classroom censorship, the impact of educational policies on teacher autonomy, and the importance of fostering trust and transparency in education.

Federal inquiry hears how teachers are struggling against curriculum guidelines to vary their teaching styles to suit their students. Federal Queensland MPs Andrew Laming, Andrew Wallace, Trevor Evans ...

As teachers begin a new school year amid the pressures of state and school content requirements, technology challenges, and classroom censorship, what they really want from their principals is simple: ...

For the past six years, the education world has been roiled by debate over the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The law, critics charge, is sucking the life out of the public schools, turning ...

Calls for a "new professionalism" in teaching have emerged from parliamentary select committee hearings, union conferences and media headlines. Debate has focused on practical factors - salary levels, ...

In June 1941, The New Yorker published a Peter Arno cartoon in which a father says to his teenage son, “Alfred, your mother and I think it would be a good idea for you to knock about on your own for a ...

A friend recently posed a question that hit me straight in the heart. He asked, “Why do educators stay in the classroom when there are so many other opportunities with less stress and higher salary ...

Think back to your school days — there was probably one class you genuinely looked forward to, not just one you had to survive. Maybe it was the subject, or maybe it was the teacher who gave you some ...

“I have been very tired—more tired and confused than I have ever been in my life,” Kristiina Chartouni, a veteran Finnish educator who began teaching American high-school students this autumn, said in ...