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Education

Don’t Be Afraid of Going to Graduate School in the Humanities

Full-time, tenure-track professorships in the humanities are famously scarce. But that's not a reason to avoid an advanced degree. Even if you don't end up in academia, odds are you'll have a job—and you'll love it.

Stephen J. Mexal

Education

Do Principals Know Good Teaching When They See It?

Most principals can’t identify or explain what constitutes good teaching, much less help teachers improve, according to a new book.

Melinda Burns

Education

‘American Teacher’ Argues for Increasing Salaries

"American Teacher" argues the best prescription for the United States' ailing public schools is paying the educators a better salary.

Lewis Beale

The Cash Benefits of a Catholic Education

Better teachers in Catholic high schools and more semesters of math and language boost student earnings later in life, a study shows.

Melinda Burns

Education

Teacher Training Too Academic, Not Practical

In examining what's ailing American teaching, a blue-ribbon panel decided that teachers should be trained the same way we train doctors — through clinical practice.

Emily Badger

Education

U.S. Students Hurting in Foreign Languages

American public education continues to give short shrift to serious teaching of foreign languages, especially those harder tongues that promise to be prominent in the future.

Lewis Beale