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 ...

DE PERE (WLUK) --It's a different kind of exposure. That's how Dr. Reid Riggle, co-chair of the teacher education program at St. Norbert College describes student teaching experiences for the upcoming ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

How do expectations, particularly teacher expectations, affect students in the U.S.? Are standards high enough? Does Common Core, which has been adapted by some states, set the bar too high? These are ...

Teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach. The first psychologist to systematically study this was a Harvard professor named Robert Rosenthal, who in 1964 did a ...

Three committees charged by Provost Alec D. Gallimore with improving teaching and supporting innovative academic structures wrapped up their first semester of work in December. The committees — ...

Mr. Rohit Gupta [email protected] Every generational shift in learning brings with it a fresh set of expectations, ...

The new question of the week is: What is the role of teacher expectations in instruction? In Part One, Nancy Frey, Ph.D., Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., and Whitney Emke ...

California is moving closer to eliminating the unpopular Reading Instruction Competence Assessment for teachers and replacing it with a performance assessment based on a new set of literacy standards ...

If you cannot meet your class or recitation for any reason (e.g., illness, family emergency), contact the course instructor as soon as you know this. Together you will work out a plan for covering ...

Louise Williamson has been an educator for more than three decades. But this past school year has been one of her most challenging. For years, the teaching profession has been “crumbling” under the ...