Pay teachers for performance and taking hard jobs, not just for years in the classroom.

The first step in improving education is to stop doing stupid things.

Accountability and rigor are out for politicians and education reformers.

"God knows, we don't pay you enough," Kamala Harris told teachers at the American Federation of Teachers convention in Houston. That went...

Arkansas raised teacher pay statewide -- a lot -- but some teachers aren't happy, writes Ariel Gilreath on the Hechinger Report. "Because...

Raising teacher pay won't raise student achievement or keep teachers from quitting if working conditions are bad.

"Majoring in education has a near ZERO return on investment for lifetime earnings," notes Matthew Kraft, citing a new report that...

Measuring teacher quality is tricky, and that makes it hard to tell if there's a good-teacher gap, writes Fordham's Michael Petrilli in...

Most teachers like teaching, enjoy the flexible work schedule, live comfortably and are no more likely to quit their profession than...

Most teachers who leave their jobs don't earn more eight years later, reports Sarah D. Sparks in Education Week. Most who left a large...

Public school spending rose by 25 percent per student in inflation-adjusted dollars from 2002 to 2020, reports the Reason Foundation....

The teacher pay debate tends to be simplistic and unserious, writes Andrew Rotherham on Eduwonk. He calls out a tweet by Education...

Teachers will earn more and have "apprentices" and aides to handle mundane chores. They'll use scripted curricula instead of spending...

Raising teacher and staff pay by 50 percent over seven years is "a big and bold idea," says the president of the California Federation of...

The "underpaid-teacher meme" is discouraging college students interested in teaching from pursuing the career, according to new studies...

U.S. teachers would earn a lot more if schools had invested in quality rather than quantity, argues Fordham's Chester E. Finn Jr. In his...

Teacher pay should start at a minimum of $60,000 a year, said advocates of the American Teacher Act at the U.S. Capitol last week,...

Fewer people are training to be teachers, writes Chad Aldeman, policy director of Georgetown's Edunomics Lab, in Education Next. "There...