The Teach for America program will train and place more than 7,300 highly motivated teachers in our nation's neediest schools this year. National enrollment for the Teach for America is on the rise in most universities in the United States and it's possible that the tough job market is one of the key reasons for the increase in enrollment.

Have you heard of Teacher Appreciation Week? This event is becoming better known every year and is celebrated in countries all around the world. Teacher Appreciation Week is in May and it is a fantastic opportunity to celebrate our teachers.

Ohio police says that a teacher named Amber Carter has cut the class for something that no parent wants his or her child's teachers do.

Today, President-elect Barack Obama introduced Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan as the next Secretary of Education. Across the board, Duncan is being described as someone “known for taking tough steps to improve schools while maintaining respectful relations with teachers and their unions.”

U.S. science and engineering students emerge from graduate school exquisitely trained to carry out research. Yet when it comes to the other major activity they'll engage in as professors – teaching – they're usually left to their own devices.

The Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP), the largest research initiative into education related topics ever undertaken in the United Kingdom, presents its major conclusions on 24th and 25th November after nine years of investigations across all sectors of education, from the importance of preschool education to lifelong learning.

Official professional standards in both Scotland and England which aim to nurture the development of new teachers pay too little attention to what 'becoming' a teacher is really like.

Teachers who have earned certification from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards are challenged to become education leaders in their community, says Wake County Public Schools system.

With a nationwide shortage of science teachers and plummeting student test scores, many school districts are forced to hire teachers with science degrees but little training in education or experience teaching. Without proper support, research shows that 66 percent of new teachers will quit the profession within three years.

Christine Comer, former director of the science curriculum for the Texas Education Agency (TEA), is suing the Commissioner Robert Scott for wrongful dismissal.

Alia Sabur has always been a newsmaker. She was the youngest student to attend college, when she was 10, and four years later, the youngest woman to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University. By 18, she had her doctorate degree in Materials Science and Engineering. And now, the young New Yorker has made headlines again.

Yale University is pleased to announce the appointment of Prime Minister Tony Blair as the Howland Distinguished Fellow for the next academic year.