Our nation’s education system is at an inflection point. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended traditional teaching structures, exposing and exacerbating pervasive inequities in our schools. Teachers are ...

The Department of Education wants to award colleges and universities that train teachers of color more money to grow the nation’s teaching staff and more accurately reflect the demographics of public ...

After seeing this year’s standardized test scores, state education officials want to change the way those scores translate to school ratings — in a way that likely would make more schools look better.

This morning I spoke with Lydia Carlis, Ph.D., an education consultant who previously taught in elementary school. She’s committed to ameliorating educational inequity in our nation’s schools. “My ...

The newest teachers are typically the first to go during layoffs. That's because traditional seniority-based protections require it. Thanks to efforts to diversity the teaching force, a relatively ...

When I was a special education teacher at Myrtle Grove Elementary School in Miami in 2010, my colleagues and I recommended that a Black girl receive special education services because she had ...

Are the pupils gloomy, nervous, inattentive? Does the teacher complain of eyestrain? It may be the classroom’s “schoolhouse-brown” paint. Last week New York’s public school system, which adopted ...