Kids who act out at school may have good reason — but teachers won’t know about problems at home unless parents tell them. (Illustration: Getty Images) Problems at home — divorce, death, incarceration ...

Your child's teachers do not necessarily need to be their best friends, but your son or daughter should never feel uncomfortable or fearful when walking into their classroom each day. If they are ...

Depression in preschool teachers is associated with behavioral problems ranging from aggression to sadness in children under the teachers’ care, new research suggests. Depression in preschool teachers ...

Parents are the third rail of the discipline conversation. Teachers say they need backup from their school leaders.

One of my students gave me a special gift — a blank journal with the cover title: “I’m a MATH TEACHER. Of Course I Have PROBLEMS.” It’s true that I happen to have many problems. In the space allotted ...

Nationally, schools lose between $1 billion and $2.2 billion in attrition costs each year through teachers moving or leaving the profession, according to new research from the Alliance for Excellent ...

It seems like just yesterday when Santa Fe High School’s team flew to Denver for the 2012 Summer Learning Forward Conference. At that conference, our team worked tirelessly with the Learning School ...

I was director of Chicago Public Schools testing programs for nearly 20 years. I’m all for accountability; I got a great education at CPS and feel strongly that the current students deserve the same.

Last month, we learned that West Virginia public schools have a student absenteeism problem. The State Department of Education’s Balanced Scorecard report found that more than one-third (38 percent) ...