In June's special anniversary edition of the Trendline we explore how much time teachers get for planning and collaboration, the...
In this month’s edition of Catching up on Contracts, we look at two districts, Portland Public Schools in Oregon and...
As a group, teachers tend to defy the old adage "you can't go home again," usually taking jobs within 50...
Things that get better with time: fine wines, first edition books and even teachers in spite of prevailing wisdom. That's...
Substitute teachers have been in the news frequently as of late. In our most recent Teacher Trendline we laid...
Raising standards is hard. But as painful as it is to decide that not everyone is cut out to teach or...
This month’s installment of Catching up on Contracts brings news of contract changes in three school districts in NCTQ’s Teacher...
In May's edition of the Trendline we explore substitute teacher policies, including education and licensing requirements, pay and health benefits.
Today, a test of your policy chops. What do the following three statements have in common? 1. It's been X years since A...
Some students are more apt to be assigned better or more experienced teachers than other students. That's not news. Past studies have...
Do teacher education journals seek to help teacher educators do a better job? It seems like a fairly silly question. Nevertheless, we...
This year, Clark County School District in Las Vegas started the year in a pinch: district-wide, there were over 600 teaching vacancies...
Teacher quality happenings this week: a new American Federation of Teachers’ survery find that teacher's job satisfaction has dropped, James...
This week: closing poor performing schools doesn’t academically hurt displaced students, San Francisco is struggling to hire teachers for next...
April's Trendline is all about transfers and excessing, highlighting how districts prioritize transfers and how they decide where to place...