A new Web site gives users instant access to teacher-contract data in the nation’s 50 largest school districts, but teachers’ unions are warning against taking some of the information at face value.

Our school curriculum requires teaching students from 2nd grade on up how to use databases, but we're a bit uncertain what is a good program to use to teach them. Obviously Access is out of the ...

California can hardly afford to give up $6 million. Yet that’s what the federal government is rightly demanding. The U.S. Department of Education wants its money back because the state failed to use ...

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says she wants to encourage greater involvement by parents in their children’s education, and evidently that includes giving parents easy access to teachers’ disciplinary ...

A state-by-state audit of the nation’s only database for tracking teacher misconduct is being ordered in the wake of a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation that found thousands of missing names in the ...

New data from the Michigan Department of Education shows 97.5 percent of teachers in the state were rated effective or highly effective by their district. The remainder were rated either minimally ...