...finding ways to evaluate teachers of subjects that don't have standardized tests, said Janice Poda of the Council of Chief State School Officers. To ease growing pains, some states like New Jersey, which asked the Obama administration this week...

WASHINGTON - Arne Duncan has an opportunity to do more for a generation of youngsters than any education secretary in history, and my strong sense is that he is going to make the most of it.

...she wrote in the application for the National Teacher of the Year contest, co-sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers and Scholastic Inc. After receiving her doctorate in contemporary literature from International College...

...do that. Suellen Reed, the state superintendent of public instruction in Indiana and chairwoman of the Council of Chief State School Officers, said states are much better positioned to follow the new law than they were in 1994. Every state except...

...prekindergarten has begun to build with issue advocacy from groups such as the Children's Defense Fund and the Council of Chief State School Officers. If we show innovation and leadership in early childhood education today, our workforce will show innovation...