Earlier this month, an Indiana state panel that supervises teacher licensing in the state successfully swept aside many of the...
A recent U.S. Department of Education scuffle with Texas once again reveals more problems with the "highly qualified teacher" designation. ...
A few months ago, we criticized a much ballyhooed study out of Louisiana. That study claimed that teachers coming...
For years, the driving organizational push of Teach For America has been to figure out how to select individuals into...
In our second paper this month from Dan Goldhaber and Michael Hansen, our star-studded team explores the potential for using...
By Rob Rickenbrode, NCTQ Dan Goldhaber's and Jane Hannaway's new compilation of essays, Creating a New Teaching Profession, crackles early...
Women won the vote in 1920, pushed for equality in the 60's, and today out-number their male counterparts in college...
Obama upped the ante for his administration's commitment to putting more math and science teachers in the classroom, pledging another...
We are very pleased to welcome long-time education advocate and leader, Barbara O'Brien, to our...
A few days after the release of Detroit's astonishingly bad, shame-making NAEP scores, Detroit teachers have approved a new...
Will student performance really improve if only smarter people become teachers? Rhode Island may find out. This month, the state's...
The holiday season seems the ideal time to retell a childhood story with a slight twist... Imagine a contemporary Goldilocks, not...
A national certification program for principals is a step closer to becoming reality with an Arne-Duncan-attended, big-National-Press-Club, December 8th roll-out...
In case you hadn't tired of the certification question, there's a new study out comparing performance of Teach For America...
There's nothing more motivating than being broke--at least when it comes to getting state governments to turn their attention to...