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 ...

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.

Revisiting a decade-old contentious issue, the Legislative Analyst’s Office is urging the Legislature to create a teacher database that would help lawmakers address a projected teacher shortage. A new ...

It looks simple: A big button sits at the top of the California Commission for Teacher Credentialing website that says “Search for an Educator.”After a few more steps, the user can look up information ...

The background checks that schools conduct to ensure that prospective teachers aren't sexual predators are pretty stringent. Schools research criminal records. Teachers are fingerprinted. References ...

Ten years after California legislators passed a bill creating a database to get a better handle on its teaching force, the Golden state remains one of only a handful of states not to have such a ...

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 ...

UCLA School of law has launched a new database to track and analyze legislation, regulations and administrative efforts to undermine the teaching of race and racism in schools. Local school boards, ...