Merit Pay Pitfalls and Other Gold Nuggets from Hanushek Et Al.

A group of the nation's top education economists (Eric Hanushek, John Kain, Daniel O'Brien and Steven Rivkin) are out with...

The Do's and Don'ts of Merit Pay

Ever since the Texas House passed a controversial bill last month that will require school districts in the Lone Star...

Accountability Comes to the Tutoring Industry

Some lawmakers are starting to poke their collective noses into the booming tutoring business. Awash in federal NCLB funds, after-school...

Paying Teachers What They're Worth

In a recent Ed Week editorial, the Progressive Policy Institute's Andrew J. Rotherham (also Chair of NCTQ's board), challenges states...

Hangin' Out Under the Bridge, Lookin' to Get Certified

Last week, the New York Daily News recounted the sordid tale of Wayne Brightly, a Bronx teacher who paid a...

NCTQ Staffers Learn How They Got To Be So Brilliant- or Not

To rave reviews, Standard and Poor's has launched a site that compares per- pupil spending, student teacher ratios, proficiency scores...

Addressing Ed Schools' Bottom Dwellers
by NCTQ President, Kate Walsh

At a recent conference of teacher educators I mentioned that roughly one out of every four institutions currently housing ed...

Chicago Officials Gloat over Bad Tutoring

In the latest chapter of the ongoing drama between the Chicago Public Schools and the US Department of Education, school...

Discussions Continue in Utah

It's anyone's guess what will happen out West after Utah Governor Jon Huntsman?s March 15th meeting with Secretary Margaret Spellings...

New Study Blasts R.I. Teacher Contract Process

The Education Partnership, a business-led coalition based in Providence, Rhode Island, has just released a report linking the lack of...

National Board Critics Charge Back

After a recent spate of reports finding that National Board (NB) certified teachers do in fact contribute to greater student...

Testing Tussle in Tarheel Territory

Some North Carolina lawmakers are proposing a bill that could put a black mark on teaching standards in the Tarheel...

Merit Pay for Longhorns

The Lone Star State may be dipping its toes into merit pay waters if its Senate passes a bill recently...

Inside the Black Box

A DC-based community advocacy group, The Finance Project, has released the latest in a series of reports that try to...

An Accurate Portrait of Teaching

A must read op-ed by Checker Finn (who serves on NCTQ's Board of Directors) appeared in the Wall Street Journal...