A state-by-state audit of the nation’s only database for tracking teacher misconduct is being ordered in the wake of a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation that found thousands of missing names in the ...

A new Web site gives users instant access to teacher-contract data in the nation’s 50 largest school districts, but teachers’ unions are warning against taking some of the information at face value.

A unique database for medical students and other health sciences students has been developed at Tufts University to enrich teaching and learning. The database, aptly called the Health Sciences ...

Revisiting a decade-old contentious issue, the Legislative Analyst’s Office is urging the Legislature to create a teacher database that would help lawmakers address a projected teacher shortage. A new ...

California can hardly afford to give up $6 million. Yet that’s what the federal government is rightly demanding. The U.S. Department of Education wants its money back because the state failed to use ...

It looks simple: A big button sits at the top of the California Commission for Teacher Credentialing website that says “Search for an Educator.”After a few more steps, the user can look up information ...

A USA TODAY NETWORK report published Sunday has found fundamental defects in teacher-screening systems across the country, resulting in a failure to keep educators with a history of serious misconduct ...

Ten years after California legislators passed a bill creating a database to get a better handle on its teaching force, the Golden state remains one of only a handful of states not to have such a ...

New data from the Michigan Department of Education shows 97.5 percent of teachers in the state were rated effective or highly effective by their district. The remainder were rated either minimally ...