A research review by the Education Commission of the States concludes that teachers’ expectations—often influenced by factors such as race, ethnicity, and family income levels—can significantly affect ...

As I’ve noted many times (see, for instance, here, here, and here), some corners in schooling today are marked by a bizarre enthusiasm for low expectations. This has fueled a push to eliminate ...

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This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

The school environment in which teachers work is related to their expectations of students, according to a new study. "It is known that low teacher expectations are negatively associated with student ...

It wasn't so very long ago when there were one-room schoolhouses. At one time, more than 6,000 one-room schoolhouses were in Wisconsin. Today, not many of those schoolhouses exist. Some are private ...

DE PERE (WLUK) --It's a different kind of exposure. That's how Dr. Reid Riggle, co-chair of the teacher education program at St. Norbert College describes student teaching experiences for the upcoming ...

Teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach. The first psychologist to systematically study this was a Harvard professor named Robert Rosenthal, who in 1964 did a ...

A new study from the Center for American Progress concludes that teachers’ expectations for their students are strongly correlated with students’ graduation rates. Conversely, the study also says that ...