India’s education policies should encourage private initiative and focus on learning outcomes

The training and licensing of teachers has always been a contentious political and policy issue. Recent years have seen increasingly heated debate about the value of teacher licensure and certification and whether certification ensures a highly qualified teacher corps. Please join AEI for an October 23-24 conference that will...

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.

Low grading standards in university education departments will negatively affect the accumulation of skills for prospective teachers and contribute to a larger culture of low standards for educators.

This book lays out new approaches for ensuring high-quality teacher preparation.

Uncle Sam's ability to directly address teacher distribution warrants skepticism.

High-quality residency programs are swell, but before the eight states that have signed onto the NCATE and the Department of Education get too far ahead of themselves, take a breath to make sure this has a happy ending.

This Outlook articulates a vision of twenty-first-century teacher leaders--who work collaboratively to accomplish their goals--and explains the issues that might arise for schools and districts implementing this new model.