A professor took a scientific interest in teaching and, in his work with one student in particular, found humanity in the profession.

It's taken as an article of faith among proponents of value-added teaching evaluation that teachers are the single most important variable determining student success in school. But what if the ...

The editorial "It's the students, people," Sept. 7, states: "How, for instance, can 94 percent of teachers be deemed 'effective' or 'highly effective' when fewer than 36 percent of students in ...

The Journal of Classroom Interaction, Vol. 14, No. 2 (SUMMER 1979), pp. 11-17 (7 pages) This research was supported in part by the National Institute of Education Contract OB-NIE-B-78-0216, The ...

So much blame is being tossed around that there was a move in Tallahassee to have teachers grade parents. Did the children do their homework? Were they on time? Did they have supplies? "Teachers ...

This paper examines curriculum issues in social work education in relationship to the concepts of ethnicity, minority groups, racism, and institutional racism. Operational definitions to establish ...

There are just too many variables. Naturally, schools could enjoy improved reputations after some of those variables are reformed or enhanced (think family stability and support, sustainable ...

The research addresses a fundamental challenge in modern education: the lack of cohesive insights from disparate student data ...

Re: “Children can’t stride into the future in a 19th-century education system” [March 5, Opinion]: I have been a high school teacher for more than 50 years, the last eight as a volunteer ...