A new Web site gives users instant access to teacher-contract data in the nation’s 50 largest school districts, but teachers’ unions are warning against taking some of the information at face value.

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 ...

The Houston Chronicle analyzed salary records from more than 365,000 full-time teachers across the state of Texas to learn more about how educators in different school districts and with different ...

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New data shows that state public schools are seeing a surge in teachers with less than three years of experience and teaching ...

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 ...

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California can hardly afford to give up $6 million. Yet that’s what the federal government is rightly demanding. The U.S. Department of Education wants its money back because the state failed to use ...