Adding Value to the Poorly Informed Debate on Teacher Quality
The Education Trust has recently published a less-than-brief but helpful policy brief exploring the debate over the so-called "value-added" assessment...
The Education Trust has recently published a less-than-brief but helpful policy brief exploring the debate over the so-called "value-added" assessment...
A particularly interesting recent study by Jack Buckley, Mark Schneider, and Yi Shang looks at the impact of the quality...
In a more familiar discussion of teacher attrition, Richard Ingersoll and Jeffrey M. Kralik have reviewed the literature pertaining to...
In the most recent edition of Education Next, economist Thomas S. Dee takes on the complex question of how a...
The Chicago public schools under the leadership of CEO Arne Duncan has proposed a plan that would require principal candidates...
Claiming he was strong enough to do it and not get hurt, a 17-year-old Miami Beach High School student jumped...
Arkansas Arkansas legislators wrapped up their recent special session on education with the approval of several measures that will increase teacher...
In an evocative excerpt from his 2003 book, The 2% Solution: Fixing America's Problems in Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can...
Two recent papers, one from University of Maryland and California State researchers Sean Corcoran, William Evans, and Robert Schwab and...
Both Georgia and Rhode Island approved new alternative certification routes for teachers this week. The Peach State is now allowing...
An increasing number of teacher candidates are exchanging long commutes and the more rigid schedules of bricks and mortar universities...
The always entertaining struggles between Randi Weingarten (president of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City) and New...
The newly formed National Center on Alternative Certification held its first conference this month in San Antonio, with a keynote...
The Tennessee General Assembly is considering legislation that may dismantle Tennessee's Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS), the pioneer system in the...
The Public Education Network has released a report entitled "The Voice of the New Teacher," presenting their findings from surveying...