Improving teacher quality through tenure

Tenure may be the new panacea for solving teacher quality problems. Researchers like Tom Kane, Robert Gordon and Eric...

On a positive note: AmeriCorps for musicians?

MusicianCorps, an AmeriCorps-like effort to place trained musicians into schools, appears to be striking a chord with the Obama...

Save the date--2008 State Teacher Policy Yearbook launch

Coming up on January 29, NCTQ will release the 2008 State Teacher Policy Yearbook: What States Can Do to...

Save the date--NCTQ Conference on Collective Bargaining

Join us on Thursday, March 26,for NCTQ's conference here in Washington, D.C., when an esteemed panel of judges will select...

Time for learning gets shrug from Seattle schools

Out of Seattle is a real gem of a study that had us wishing we had thought of it first....

New York: They may be bad, but they're still ours

New York City schools Chancellor Joel Klein once described teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve (excessed teachers unable to...

NCATE ready to change accreditation process

NCATE has at last gotten the message that ed schools neither like its arduous accreditation process nor much respect the...

Can TFA stay on its growth curve?

How does the economic downturn jive with Teach For America's aggressive growth model? TFA is one of the few nonprofits...

Dallas flunks layoffs except for criteria

Layoffs are expected in times of recession, but several school districts have taken the unpalatable step earlier than might have...

Desperation drives Dallas to duplicitous deed

This is not a good month for Dallas in the PR department. Back in 2004 the state education department...

Today's TQB is brought to you by the letter Q

When Los Angeles voters went to the polls this month they had the chance to vote for 23(!) school-related ballot...

San Diego's new crystal ball

While efforts in California to use value-added data to judge a teacher's effectiveness have been blocked by that state's...

Take two on comparing induction programs

Last month in TQB "Existential takes on first year induction and professional development" discussed a study funded out of the...

Andy's new hybrid

Title II has been guzzling up about $3 billion annually in federal money for some time now without producing much...

Save the date -- 2008 State Teacher Policy Yearbook launch

On January 29, 2008, NCTQ will release the 2008 State Teacher Policy Yearbook: What States Can Do to Retain Effective...