Last week, Education Week, Teacher Magazine’s sister publication, released Technology Counts 2006, its ninth annual survey of education technology. This year’s report, titled “The Information Edge,” ...

Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman, economists at Harvard, and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia co-wrote the recent study "The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in ...

Our school curriculum requires teaching students from 2nd grade on up how to use databases, but we're a bit uncertain what is a good program to use to teach them. Obviously Access is out of the ...

As states’ information-collection systems grow more sophisticated, officials are grappling with where to draw the line on how “value added” data on teachers can be used. Tennessee law permits the use ...

Revisiting a decade-old contentious issue, the Legislative Analyst’s Office is urging the Legislature to create a teacher database that would help lawmakers address a projected teacher shortage. A new ...

The head of the American Federation of Teachers said Wednesday that she believed parents have a right to know how well their children’s teachers are rated on employee evaluations, but strongly ...

A state-by-state audit of the nation’s only database for tracking teacher misconduct is being ordered in the wake of a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation that found thousands of missing names in the ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Education has given the public greater access to the details of school district spending, including public school employee salaries. The state has added school district ...