Last week, Manhattan's appellate court gave the New York City Department of Education the go-ahead to release the names and "value-added score" rankings of thousands of the city's teachers. These scores are designed to quantify the direct impact of teachers on student performance.

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Researchers have long found that teachers with experience are more effective at raising student achievement than new teachers. Yet, high rates of teacher turnover, particularly among those in poorly performing schools, have obstructed this in practice. While pecuniary...

Non-teachers and retirees are dominating unions, making it difficult for reformers focused on improving education to actually effect change.

The authors of the November 2011 Heritage Foundation report “Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers” respond to questions and concerns, in the process showing that certain critical accusations—such as undercounting teachers’ work hours or overestimating retirement benefits—are simply false.

Obama's 2011 Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility plan grants certain states waivers from No Child Left Behind accountability requirements if they agree to a series of preset conditions, but the waiver plan poses several notable risks.

The largest single political contributor in the 2010 campaign cycle is a public employee union, which exemplifies the generous campaign spending from public employee unions, especially to campaigns for federal office.

Overhauling the teachers contract will be a bruising struggle--one that will succeed only if the community commits to seeing it through.

This book documents the unions' descent into radicalism and concludes that this movement no longer serves the public or the national interest.