"My job is to interact with kids," says Alonzo Nelson, Jr., who teaches high school math in Belleville, Illinois. "I miss the human element of it" After almost a year-and-a-half t eaching classes via ...

Female elementary school teachers’ comfort with mathematics has an outsize effect on the girls they teach, according to new research. Girls taught by a female teacher got a learning boost if that ...

Martha Strever has been a math teacher at Linden Avenue Middle School in New York since 1961. Strever is the longest active teacher in New York State and the longest active member of New York State ...

Many high-school chemistry students would probably love a teacher like Robert A. Gonzales. During a class at James Bowie High School here last month, he asked his students to figure out the alignment ...

Teachers of Alabama, a new series from AL.com's Education Lab, features educators who are implementing solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing schools in the state. In a packed school ...