Teacher retention is in crisis. Teachers of color leave the classroom at a higher rate than their white counterparts (19 percent vs. 15 percent, respectively), and students need to have more black and ...

There’s a “profoundly leaky pipeline” of teachers of color, a new report says —but often, states don’t explicitly prioritize diversity when setting recruitment and retention policies. The National ...

A bill moving through the Minnesota Legislature aims to increase the number of teachers of color across the state by providing funding and reducing barriers to recruiting people of color. The Increase ...

During my first two years of teaching, I dealt with many situations that left me feeling downtrodden, broken and totally drained. For example, one day, I was sitting in my classroom in full panic mode ...

Mary Rice-Boothe, Ed.D., joined The Leadership Academy in 2015 with more than 20 years of experience in education as a teacher, principal, principal coach, and curriculum designer, and she currently ...

Today, less than one in five teachers identify as Black, Hispanic or Asian American amidst an increasingly diverse student population. Credit: Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images The Hechinger Report ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Rhonda Hicks could have kept working into her 60s. She loved teaching and loved her students in Philadelphia’s public schools. As a Black woman, she took pride in being a role ...

High school junior Kylie Louissaint spent her summer working as a teaching assistant and earning college credits toward a teaching degree. Kylie, who is Black and attends Dover High School in Morris ...

Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker highlighted goals for the state Department of Education for the upcoming 2023-24 academic year at a back-to-school event with superintendents and ...

Ronald, one of my 11th-grade students during my first teaching at Thomas FitzSimons Young Men’s Leadership Academy in North Philadelphia, often shared that he lacked academic confidence because he ...