Wendy Kopp is the co-founder and CEO of Teach For All and founder of Teach For America. Fourth-grader Emmely is a bright and curious girl with big dreams of becoming a lawyer. But like many low-income ...

Like most Kindergarten classrooms, Carol Espiritu’s is decorated with cheerfully colored posters illustrating the months and seasons, stacks of picture books and imaginative drawings. Espiritu’s tiny ...

My sixth grade teacher scared the hell out of me. He was eccentric, loud, even a bully at times. He made me cry often and with regretful abandon. Some people called him a bully, but I think we were ...

For years, officials in the Fort Worth Independent School District used the same strategy to try to boost student achievement: Offer coaching and guidance to teachers and hope that, as they got better ...

"He's more than a teacher to me, he's a true friend". This confession by a high-school student, delivered anonymously, sounds like a confession. That of an ambiguous relationship, where the classic ...