Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We like to believe we’ve outgrown basic academic blind spots, but teachers say that’s rarely true. Year after year, the same ...

Math teacher Lesley Fox joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about life as a teacher. Is this the worst time to become a teacher? Do teachers secretly play favorites? Why is bullying ...

My first year as a teacher began with a three-day new-teacher training that was essentially an Education 101 crash course. It included tips on writing lesson plans, how to use a K-W-L (Know, Want to ...

Teachers spend plenty of time asking their students questions. One Oak Park teacher is hoping to prompt other teachers to ask themselves questions. What if a student refuses to do what you tell him or ...

My name is Nancy, and I had a 30-year career in the classroom, where I was never evaluated, except by... (dramatic pause) checklist. And yet--somehow, I continued to teach and my students continued to ...

Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the ...

I'm a HS teacher. I have two situations. (Before you ask, these situations are <B>not</B> bad.)<BR><BR>1) A <B>parent</B> of one of my students invited me to the student's surprise birthday party at a ...