A global study reveals teacher happiness significantly improves student academic performance. Joyful educators foster better ...

As of October 2022, after the school year had already begun, 45% of U.S. public schools had at least one teacher vacancy. That's according to limited federal data. For several months, NPR has been ...

In a field house on a balmy mid-November evening, principals and district leaders here were waiting for prospective teachers to stop by so they could make their pitch: Come work for us. We need you.

Limited national data suggest teachers are plentiful, but many districts that serve some of the most vulnerable students would beg to differ. First-grade teacher Kimberly Pate, 52, worked for nearly ...

I was 14 when I met a firecracker of a soul, a bombastic professor of life with colossal charisma who stood all of 4-foot-10. Mrs. Korthaus was the beloved English teacher at our rural Pennsylvania ...

Being a teacher can feel like a thankless job, especially when so many people don't actually know what goes on in the classroom. In a Reddit post, teachers came together to talk about the things no ...