Last week, Education Week, Teacher Magazine’s sister publication, released Technology Counts 2006, its ninth annual survey of education technology. This year’s report, titled “The Information Edge,” ...

Our school curriculum requires teaching students from 2nd grade on up how to use databases, but we're a bit uncertain what is a good program to use to teach them. Obviously Access is out of the ...

Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman, economists at Harvard, and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia co-wrote the recent study "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in ...

As states’ information-collection systems grow more sophisticated, officials are grappling with where to draw the line on how “value added” data on teachers can be used. Tennessee law permits the use ...

The Houston Chronicle analyzed salary records from more than 365,000 full-time teachers across the state of Texas to learn more about how educators in different school districts and with different ...

Students in Jeananne Soukup's fourth-grade classroom know exactly where their math abilities stand. Soukup has a "data wall" in her Anne Sullivan Elementary classroom showing different levels of ...

Terri L. Renner had long wondered what made some of her students succeed more than others. Maybe, thought Renner, a senior lecturer in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana ...

California can hardly afford to give up $6 million. Yet that’s what the federal government is rightly demanding. The U.S. Department of Education wants its money back because the state failed to use ...

Students across America are heading back to school over the next few weeks — but will there be enough teachers to meet them there? Stories abound of districts having difficulty filling job openings, ...

Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman, economists at Harvard, and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia co-wrote the recent study "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in ...