Turns out it is rocket science. In fact, the emerging evidence around how students learn is so dynamic that thoughtful educators must continually…

“The problem in American education is not dumb teachers. The problem is dumb teacher training,” University of Virginia cognitive scientist Dan…

Every classroom teacher ends up with a collection of ideas and beliefs about teaching and learning based on experience and training that inform how we…

Proposals to “professionalize teaching” are popular today, but agreement about what this should entail is elusive. At Deans for Impact, an…

A group of education school deans hoping to spur improvements in teacher preparation today announced their first major initiative: To improve aspiring…

Twenty years ago, as a psychology major focused on learning and memory, I took a history of psychology course that included phrenology, Freud,…

During the recession, hundreds of thousands of teachers in states like California and North Carolina lost their jobs.

But, now those same states…

How might we innovate teacher preparation in the United States to improve outcomes for all students? That is the question driving the work of Dr.…

School time is coming again for millions of American students. For some, it’s already here. In many schools there will be well-known and loved…

When Jeffrey Chiusano starts his job as a high school physics teacher in the fall, he’ll be doing so with a full year of teaching already under his…