Faulkner offends nearly everyone, but he forces us to dive into the human wreckage of racism and violence.

Most charter school funders hate unions and unions generally hate charters. But more and more charter teachers want to unionize, and labor is helping them do it.

Rafe Esquith has been barred from teaching as part of an investigation that began with him telling a joke.

A potentially significant ruling in California declares medically accurate sex ed to be taught

Thousands of students are opting out of new standardized tests aligned to the Common Core standards, defying the latest attempt by states to improve academic performance.

Teacher Madeline Luciano was fired from P.S. 18 after letting students write that a classmate was ugly.

One year may not sound like enough time for a life to come apart at the seams, but a year in the life of a drug addict can be counted by drama, bullshit and tragedies in the same way rings can be counted on a tree. What? You’re still mad at me for overdosing on Christmas? That was like two overdoses and a car accident ago. It’s already Easter, man. Let shit go.

Teachers’ learning needs are as unique as their students’. Why, then, is their professional development so awkwardly flat?

What if teachers were paid salaries more on par with doctors and lawyers? Lo and behold, the teachers perform better and students learn more.

The growing pace of technological change will result in workers needing to learn continuously, or face falling behind, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s director of digital learning, Professor Sanjay Sarma. Speaking at Innovisions 2014, the London-based yearly conference of NEF: The Innovation Institute on Thursday, Sarma said: “I anticipate a day where every employee at every company will spend two to three hours a week upgrading their skills.”

A charter school in a low-income Manhattan neighborhood tries an experiment—with mixed results.

Professor Kenneth Goldsmith, who will teach the creative writing class, says he will strictly enforce "a state of distraction" among the students.

Do teachers really know what students go through? To find out, one teacher followed two students for two days and was amazed at what she found. Her report is in following post, which appeared on the blog of Grant Wiggins, the co-author of “Understanding by Design” and the author of “Educative Assessment” and numerous articles on education.

In the 1970s, idealistic young activists created a wave of experimental schools - no compulsory lessons, no timetables, no rules. So what happened to the kids who attended these free-for-alls?

The high school junior who allegedly had a threesome with two of his teachers is overcome with guilt after he says his bragging ruined their lives. The unnamed Louisiana teen, now 17, made the mistake of talking about his sexual conquest with English teachers Rachel Respess, 24, and Shelley Dufresne, 32, and the news soon found its way to school administrators, who informed the police.

In 2008, shortly after Bill Gates stepped down from his executive role at Microsoft, he often awoke in his 66,000-square-foot home on the eastern bank of Lake Washington and walked downstairs to his private gym in a baggy T-shirt, shorts, sneakers and black socks yanked up to the midcalf. Then, during an hour on the treadmill, Gates, a self-described nerd, would pass the time by watching DVDs from the Teaching Company’s “Great Courses” series.

Healthcare has its critics, but few of them are calling for doctors to be replaced. Education is different—and as a new book reveals, it has been throughout U.S. history. 

One afternoon in the spring of 2006, Damany Lewis, a math teacher at Parks Middle School, in Atlanta, unlocked the room where standardized tests were kept. It was the week before his students took the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test, which determined whether schools in Georgia had met federal standards of achievement. The tests were wrapped in cellophane and stacked in cardboard boxes.

According to statements later made by teachers and administrators, the cheating process at Parks Middle School, in Atlanta, began to take the form of a routine. During testing week, after students had completed the day’s section, principal Christopher Waller distracted the testing coordinator. Then, while the students were at recess, a group of teachers erased wrong answers and filled in the right ones.