Some teacher prep programs are more effective than others in ensuring their graduates have relevant content knowledge, judging from newly released data on teacher licensure tests. Figuring out why ...

Most tests that elementary teachers take to enter the profession don’t adequately measure their knowledge of best practices for reading instruction, a new analysis contends. The report, from the ...

Everett Anderson was determined to become a teacher. It had always been his plan, and he had no reason to doubt it: He’d earned a full scholarship to college and acceptance into a leadership program ...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — It might seem ironic coming from educators, but the St. Johns County School District wants to avoid a test. It’s called the General Knowledge Test, one of the ways for ...

Peter Wilds-Bethea never intended to become a teacher. He started going to school in his home town of Darlington, South Carolina, around the time of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Two months ago, the Supreme Court ruled that all primary and upper-primary school teachers with more than five years of service remaining until superannuation and who had not yet taken the Teacher ...