Semi-finalists for Tr3 research competition

We are happy to announce the semi-finalists of our research competition--Help or Hindrance: The Impact of Teacher Rules, Roles, and...

No easy answers: The shades of grey of equity issues

by Kate Walsh To shed some light on disparities in how schools get funded, two think tanks have put out...

Teaching reading is fundamental

Connecticut has one of the nation?s most pernicious gaps in achievement between its affluent and disadvantaged students, but help may...

Iowa governor vetoes bargaining bill expansion

To the ire of many of his fellow democrats, Iowa Governor Chet Culver has vetoed a controversial bill that would...

Indianapolis: Stuck between a rock and a hard place

Indianapolis' plan for turning around four schools designated as "chronically failing" under NCLB may have been in the best...

Texas districts duel for teachers

Facing severe teacher shortages in the usual subject areas (ELL, math, science and foreign languages), school district officials in the...

Teacher layoffs: bad for business

Teachers may be used to being yanked around, but what happened to teachers in California this spring goes beyond the...

It pays to be excessed in Detroit

Last month, TQB highlighted New York City's practice of paying 'excessed' teachers (typically teachers who lose their current assignment after...

DC restructuring

Need summer beach reading? Try the newly released 400-page plan from D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee that details how...

NCTQ invite: No Common Denominator release

Join NCTQ on Thursday, June 26th on the rooftop terrace of the Hay-Adams Hotel for the release of No Common...

The teaching penalty

Editorial by Kate Walsh and Emily Cohen If nothing else, the very perception that teacher pay is low relative to other...

Impressive results for Teach For America

Though the 2004 Mathematica findings on the "do no harm" effects of Teach For America didn't quite quell critics of...

TNTP looks at NYC's excess of excessed teachers

If The New Teacher Project comes out with a new study, you are pretty much guaranteed that it will be...

Helping teachers improve: The real secret to Benwood's success

A new report from Education Sector offers a helpful new perspective on a well-publicized effort to improve student performance in...

How many chances should a teacher get, revisited

Less than a year ago, Fox News in Dallas revealed that 41 percent of Texas teachers failed the state's certification...