There’s a familiar divide between practice and policy. When it comes to grading, devices, equity, choice, student behavior, and much else, the views from inside and outside the schoolhouse are very ...

Education experts argued that maintaining teacher autonomy was important to sustaining educators’ careers at the first event in the 2025 Education Now webinar series, hosted by the Harvard Graduate ...

When teachers at A.D. Henderson School, one of the top-performing schools in Florida, are asked how they succeed, one answer is universal: They have autonomy. Nationally, most teachers report feeling ...

Thank you for your thoughtful response to my recent post on curriculum-based assessment. You make a compelling case that over-standardizing teaching may have the unintended consequence of making it a ...

After eight years teaching English at public high schools in New Jersey, I’ve learned a secret: teachers want more! Of course, teachers would love higher salaries—many are barely getting by—but I’m ...

This conversation explores the complexities of classroom censorship, the impact of educational policies on teacher autonomy, and the importance of fostering trust and transparency in education.

With teacher job satisfaction near a 50-year low and 55% considering leaving the profession, U.S. education faces a crisis of burnout, low wages, lack of support and standardized testing pressures. As ...

Approaches to teacher professional autonomy While the literature on learner autonomy is vast in didactics, the literature on teacher autonomy is much less much less extensive. It is a concept that is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lily Jones is a teacher advocate who covers education. District after district is short on teachers. Recent research shows that ...

I’m a big believer in our public schools and believe they lay the foundation for the future of our country. As go our schools, in time, the country. While I know that we have any number of pressing ...