At long last the US Department of Education released its teacher prep regulations this week, prompting me to check my calendar. I had...
If you look closely, they're actually not hard to find: inexpensive professional development opportunities for teachers that actually do make a real...
For a long time, we've heard about the damage done by teacher turnover. Often, the thinking is that schools struggle to replace...
This month, we take a look at how much leave time teachers receive each year and what policies school districts...
Here's something I've been struggling to understand of late. What makes the prospect of a teacher shortage such an immediately...
Licensure tests: depending on who you ask, they're either an important check on a prospective teacher's knowledge before entering the profession or...
As we discussed earlier this month, holding teacher prep programs accountable for the performance of their graduates is no easy task. The...
Is it too much to ask that professionals stay abreast of the research? The authors of a recently published study,...
It's been 30 years since states first began experimenting with alternative certification (AC) pathways for teachers, and while these routes have become firmly...
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If you want to judge the quality of a teacher prep program, one approach is obvious: examine whether the teachers who graduate...
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This month, we analyze school calendars for the 2016-2017 school year to answer some key questions. Is school really starting...
It's a popular movie theme--the story of that one teacher who really connects with students, setting them on the right path...
One feature of an ideal school environment, we believe, is that both students and their teachers reflect America in all of...
For most students, the start of middle school represents some newfound independence. For the first time, they get to travel the...
The entire Teacher Preparation Strategies team was saddened to learn of the death of Sam Stringfield, a member of the...