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.

As the coronavirus has infected millions of Americans, the news media have become saturated with numbers: new infection cases, hospitalization rates, death tolls, and vaccine trial results. Many ...

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 ...

This year the business school at SUNY Geneseo, in Geneseo, N.Y., took two giant steps into the world of data analytics. It created a data analytics minor and is requiring accounting and other students ...

When instructors teach, whether intentionally or not, they evaluate their courses. Evaluation may occur informally, based on their opinions of how the course went, reflections on what worked well, and ...

Students across America are heading back to school over the next few weeks — but will there be enough teachers to meet them there? Stories abound of districts having difficulty filling job openings, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colorado's teacher shortage is nothing new. The state needs more teachers than it has, especially in rural areas. Data from the ...

About 11.5% of North Carolina teachers left the profession last school year, including retirements. There were just over 6,000 teaching vacancies reported statewide, including classes without a fully ...