Week of April 6, 2015

Frank Keating: A must-read report for Oklahoma's education leadership

The studies, the comparisons, the gratuitous advice just keep coming. The latest is the end-of-year report from the National Council...

March 2015: Teacher Evaluations

For this month's Trendline, we closely examine teacher evaluation policies in the largest districts across the country. Specifically, we take...

Week of March 30, 2015

Image by Sea-TurtleTeacher Prep Have a long commute and interested in learning a little more about teacher preparation in...

Week of March 23, 2015

Teacher Prep In the midst of finalizing new regulations requiring states to rate the quality of their teacher preparation...

Contract round up: Mesa, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Long Beach and Hartford

This month's Catching up on Contracts focuses on salaries and benefits in the five districts we reviewed. In four of...

Week of March 16, 2015

District Matters Denver Public Schools plans to cut the number of peer observers used by the district’s central office to...

Week of March 9, 2015

Teacher Prep Stephen Sawchuk dives deep into the dispute between the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)...

Week of March 2, 2015

Teacher Prep Legislators in the Land of 10,000 Lakes are currently considering a bill that would require state teacher...

February 2015: Health insurance premiums

With health insurance coverage making headlines in both national and local news, this month's Trendline examines health insurance premiums for...

Week of February 23, 2015

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Doing the Math on Teacher Pensions

Just do the math and it is clear that things don't add up for teacher pension policies. NCTQ calculates that state teacher...

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Breaking through the teacher performance plateau

Can schools make teachers more effective? In thinking about that question, your mind probably goes to professional development or other training activities....

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By our powers combined…

Sometimes there just aren't enough great teachers to go around. Placing two, even three student teachers in a single classroom is one way...

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Know any aspiring teachers? Send them a copy of this book ASAP

When I was in college, several of my courses required the purchase of what the professors indicated were canonical texts. Calculus required...