MIAMI — Audrey Silverman arrived at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High in Miami last week ready to finish “The Necklace,” the English class staple short story about the deceptiveness of appearances and ...

American companies sell about $11 billion in textbooks each year. Why does social studies teacher Mark Ingerson never use them in his classes at Salem High School in Virginia? He doesn't assign the ...

A letter to the editor in the Des Moines Register last week exposes a new concern for teachers: Could funding for professional development soon be consumed by textbook companies? “In my 13 years as a ...

When teacher Mike Fletcher leads students through a geometry lesson, he brings a special kind of authority to the subject. He helped write their textbook. Fletcher spent several weeks over the summer ...

The textbooks used in teacher education do not adequately promote all the tenets of good classroom instruction, the National Council on Teacher Quality contends in a new report. In a survey of 48 ...

As a recent college graduate in the early 1990s, with fewer books under my belt than many of my students and almost no developed competencies in teaching, I landed one of the most coveted teaching ...

A new study says similar results of student achievement were found while using various textbooks, indicating the teacher or the curriculum is more key than the book. Michelle McDowell, Jamestown ...

As an English teacher at Heavener High School in eastern Oklahoma, Sarah Jane Scarberry said she has tried for years to replace her classroom’s tattered textbooks. “I have requested new textbooks for ...

A Long Island school did nothing while an ex-teacher “tormented” special needs second graders with abuse that included dropping textbooks on their heads, according to a new legal filing and distraught ...

American companies sell about $11 billion in textbooks each year. So why does social studies teacher Mark Ingerson never use them in his classes at Salem High School in Virginia? He doesn’t assign the ...