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...

Study Claims School Facilities Impact Teacher Retention More Than Pay

A particularly interesting recent study by Jack Buckley, Mark Schneider, and Yi Shang looks at the impact of the quality...

Mentoring Teachers to Stick Around

In a more familiar discussion of teacher attrition, Richard Ingersoll and Jeffrey M. Kralik have reviewed the literature pertaining to...

Race in the Classroom

In the most recent edition of Education Next, economist Thomas S. Dee takes on the complex question of how a...

Testing Principals

The Chicago public schools under the leadership of CEO Arne Duncan has proposed a plan that would require principal candidates...

You Won't

Claiming he was strong enough to do it and not get hurt, a 17-year-old Miami Beach High School student jumped...

States Move On Hardship Pay, Pay Increases

Arkansas Arkansas legislators wrapped up their recent special session on education with the approval of several measures that will increase teacher...

Upping The Ante On Hardship Pay

In an evocative excerpt from his 2003 book, The 2% Solution: Fixing America's Problems in Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can...

The Declining Quality of Teachers

Two recent papers, one from University of Maryland and California State researchers Sean Corcoran, William Evans, and Robert Schwab and...

Promising Alt Cert Programs Passed

Both Georgia and Rhode Island approved new alternative certification routes for teachers this week. The Peach State is now allowing...

The Virtual Alternative

An increasing number of teacher candidates are exchanging long commutes and the more rigid schedules of bricks and mortar universities...

Of Mites, Mice, and Men

The always entertaining struggles between Randi Weingarten (president of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City) and New...

A Dose of Refreshing Honesty, Words from an Ed Reformer

The newly formed National Center on Alternative Certification held its first conference this month in San Antonio, with a keynote...

Tennesee Value-Added System Faces Threat by Legislature

The Tennessee General Assembly is considering legislation that may dismantle Tennessee's Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS), the pioneer system in the...

Survey of New Teachers Yields the Desired Results

The Public Education Network has released a report entitled "The Voice of the New Teacher," presenting their findings from surveying...