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Illustration of a school under a microscope

Making Education Research Relevant

How researchers can give teachers more choices

ByDaniel T. Willingham,ByDavid B. Daniel,

United States President Joe Biden signs executive order on Covid-19 during his first minutes in the Oval Office, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.

Teachers and Teaching

Condition Covid Aid on Opening Schools

Or else let funding flow directly to parents

ByMartin R. West,

In a Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 photo, Saginaw fire fighters enter a house on the corner of Jackson and Fayette in Saginaw about 11:30 pm.

Teachers and Teaching

Teachers Need to Be Taught To Teach Students to Behave

Many educators lack basic training in classroom management.

ByTom Bennett,

A Rocketship Public Schools student participates in distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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“This Is Going to Be the Hardest Fall We’ve Had Maybe in the Modern History of Education.”

Silicon Schools CEO on how schools can make a high-quality jump to distance learning

ByBrian Greenberg,

Teachers and Teaching

The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles”

State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory

ByWilliam Furey,

Teachers and Teaching

The Education Exchange: How to Increase Stagnant Teacher Salaries

The Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow in Education, Eric Hanushek, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a new paper that offers evidence on how states and localities can optimize teacher compensation.

ByEducation Next,

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‘You Can’t Un-Look at It’

Teach For America CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard explains the program’s effect on teachers, including herself

ByEducation Next,

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Q&A: Eleanor Goetzinger

A veteran teacher reflects on the Oklahoma strike

ByEducation Next,

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Develop and Validate — Then Scale

Lessons from the Gates Foundation’s Effective Teaching Strategy

ByThomas J. Kane,

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EdStat: All Else Being Equal, Teachers with Classes in which 20 Percent of Students had an Emotional/ Behavioral Disorder were 2.15 Percentage Points More Likely to Leave Their School or Teaching

Teachers are likely a key element in the successful inclusion of students with disabilities (SWDs), but few studies have investigated how general-education teachers are impacted.

ByEducation Next,