Every year when the new teacher salary numbers come out, I find myself doing the same thing: scrolling through the reports, shaking my head, and wondering how we got here. On paper, things look a ...

Teachers’ wages in the United States have fallen further behind those of other college graduates over the last 30 years, resulting in a record-high pay gap in 2024, according to a report by the ...

The "summers off" argument for teachers' lower pay is inadequate, as evidenced by the ongoing teacher shortage. While summers off may have once compensated for lower pay, the current pay gap for ...

Complaints about teacher pay are a common refrain in education. Now, new data help to measure the gap between teachers’ hopes and reality. If teachers had their way, they’d get a 25% raise, finds a ...

Many teachers in Michigan need to work additional jobs to make ends meet. The rising cost of health care is one major reason why teachers seek additional employment.  Repaying student loans is an ...

The “teacher shortage” is fueled not by lower numbers of individuals entering the field, but by rapidly growing numbers of ...

Texas school districts’ best chance of seeing a significant increase in per student funding next year now appears unlikely. After more than a week of negotiating behind closed doors, Senate leaders ...

Alabama law says the state can only raise its education budget by so much, and officials want to fund a lot of expensive ...

On a recent Tuesday morning in a kindergarten classroom at Momentum Academy, teacher Caroline Simmons knelt beside a student ...