As another school year begins many wonder how much learning was lost last year without consistent in-person instruction and how to help students to “catch up.” While some might attribute academic ...

As I’ve noted many times (see, for instance, here, here, and here), some corners in schooling today are marked by a bizarre enthusiasm for low expectations. This has fueled a push to eliminate ...

Teachers know that expectations matter. They know that having high expectations in a classroom can both support (“I know you can do this”) and spur (“I’m not going to accept your bare minimum effort”) ...

Teachers' expectations about their students' abilities affect classroom interactions in myriad ways that can impact student performance. Students... Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students ...

Have you ever been in a classroom when a principal walks in? Planned or random, evaluative or not, the atmosphere changes. The entrance of an administrator can create tension where there was none, or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a mathematician, currently president of Math for America, writing about math and science education. But the term high ...

High school teacher explains how he introduces high expectations in the classroom. Math teacher Sherman Sumpter of Cross Creek Early College High School in Fayetteville, NC explains how he introduces ...

Teacher contracts are beginning to catch up with the realities of the coronavirus pandemic. And as it has done with so many other aspects of K-12 education, the coronavirus has forced districts to ...

If a black student has just one or two black teachers in elementary school, that student is significantly more likely to enroll in college, a new Johns Hopkins University study has found. Black ...