President and Founder, Proximity Learning. Evan has 15+ years of experience putting students first as a digital education entrepreneur. Teaching has historically been regarded as a noble profession, ...

Education stakeholders in Kano State have called for a shift in mindset towards the teaching profession, emphasizing that it ...

A Sense of Calling: Who Teaches and Why, by Steve Farkas, Jean Johnson, and Tony Foleno, reports on attitudes about teaching as a profession among new teachers, superintendents and principals, and ...

Growing up in the 1980s as the son of two passionate educators, I had a childhood that was suffused with an immeasurable respect for the role of the teacher. My father, a seasoned high school teacher, ...

Given the current situation in education, how can we possibly hope to attract able, imaginative, and honorable people into teaching, and how, once they enter, can we sustain them? Given the current ...

In today's society, the common saying "those who can't do, teach," seems to exemplify the opinion toward public school teachers — that the work they do isn't intellectually challenging. This often ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. This is part one in a two-part series. The second part focuses on potential solutions to ...

The pandemic has made clear the deep inequities in our society, especially within the educational system. And it became clear the many roles schools play beyond academics: like getting lunches to ...

The author goes back to her earlier work on professionalization, in which she argued that aspiring professions aim at converting one order of scarce resources into another: credentials, as proxies for ...

For Gabriel Davis, there are few things that can compare to seeing a kid's face light up when something finally clicks for them and he's able to teach them something new. It's like a three-point ...

While most of us are aware of the well-documented teacher shortage crisis in Australia, the scarcity of music teachers doesn't seem to get as much airtime. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Just as they graduate accountants, doctors, mathematicians and lawyers, U.S. universities are now turning out working professionals for the theater. In the process, they are providing the plant ...