Whose Union Is It?

A recent article in Forbes magazine exposes some shady deals made by local teachers' unions, who appear to have anything...

Florida Set to Shrink

Governor Jeb Bush's dream of weakening Florida's fairly restrictive constitutional amendment requiring uniform class size reductions has been quashed. The...

Funding Gap

An interesting new bill on the table in California seeks to ensure greater funding equity for schools within the same...

Correction

As the National Council on Teacher Quality strives to provide timely and accurate information to our readers, please note the...

Publicity, Please!

A recent AP story highlighted the Taxpayer-Teacher Protection Act, which gives new math, science, and special ed teachers up to...

NCTQ Advisory Board Member Jason Kamras Named 2005 National Teacher of the Year

NCTQ advisory board member and TFA alum Jason Kamras has been named as the 2005 National Teacher of the Year...

Darling-Hammond vs. TFA: The Battle Continues

Editorial by Kate Walsh, NCTQ President It would have been too much to expect that the recent gold-plated study of Teach...

Home-Grown Teacher Training

Across the country there are a handful of programs that somehow find the money to transition new teachers into the...

Tarheel Troubles, Take Two

The battle over testing requirements rages on in North Carolina. In a previous issue, we reported on proposed legislation which...

Rudy's Recruiting a New Crew

The ever-inventive Rudy Crew, superintendent of schools in Miami-Dade County, has come up with a way to attract great teachers...

Merit-Pay Melee in the Mile-High City

In the midst of contract negotiation acrimony, some Denver teachers are threatening to rain on the city's merit pay parade....

Firing Goes High Tech in Chicago

A new system in Chicago is allowing principals to fire non-tenured teachers with the click of a computer button. It's...

Highest-Performing Minority Students not Becoming Teachers

"Less than half a percent of Asian American and African American high-achievers choose education majors." This grim quote is taken from...

Teacher Poll Indicates Strong Support of Pay Reform

Good for The Teaching Commission for telling us what the nation's teachers unions won't: how public school teachers really feel...

Special Ed Grumblings

We may see another state-federal showdown next month in New Jersey, this time over special ed teachers. State school officials...