Colorado vowed Tuesday to expand merit pay for teachers, change how educators are evaluated, and hire more Teach for America national service recruits as it tries to win $377 million in federal funding for schools. Colorado made the promises as it seeks part of ...

Arne Duncan, appointed by President Barack Obama to be his secretary of education, knows he better do something about the state of public schools. His predecessors had less than $20 million in discretionary funding to help the nations struggling public schools. Duncan has $10 billion. Unprecedented resources need to come with unprecedented reform, Duncan says. We see this as an ...

Teach for America and programs like it could benefit from a $650 million competitive grant fund for school reforms pushed by President Barack Obama. The money is part of the economic stimulus law, which provided $5 billion to help Obama overhaul schools. Most of the money is for states, but $650 ...

The Clark County School DistrictÕs decision to partner with Teach for America in 2004 has arguably been one of its more successful experiments. But instead of increasing the number of new graduates recruited from the nationÕs top colleges and universities to work as teachers in at-risk classrooms, the district is scaling back its expansion. For the 2009-10 academic year, the ...