Week of January 5, 2015

NCTQ’s response to Easy A’s Gets an F

Contract round up: Sacramento, Baltimore County, Billings and Laramie

This month’s installment covers the new contracts in Sacramento City Unified School District, Baltimore County Public Schools, Billings Public Schools...

Finally! Good old-fashioned investigative journalism on teacher prep

A top-notch, three-part series (here, here and here) running in this week's Education Week sheds new light on one of the most non-transparent...

NCTQ v. University of Missouri

Earlier this month, the Missouri Supreme Court declined to hear NCTQ's appeal of a lower court decision, which blocked our request that...

Ready or not: New teachers and the transition to higher standards

In the five years since most states adopted Common Core State Standards or their own version of college- and career-readiness standards, about...

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Hash it out: Contradictory findings on teacher prep and persistence

Districts often ask NCTQ to identify the preparation programs that produce teachers who will stay in the classroom through thick and thin....

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In ed research, ‘tis never the season for making a hypothesis and checking it twice

How do academic research and world exploration differ? In research, it's good to discover the same thing twice! Replication – research...

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Following the path from teacher prep to student achievement

Over the years, there have been a gazillion studies examining the relative merit of different pathways into the teaching profession. Almost all...

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To use VAM or not to use VAM?

The use of value-added models (VAM) to evaluate teachers and schools has never been short on critics, but this year the opposition...

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Transforming recruitment and hiring in Dallas

Dallas Independent School District hires approximately 2,000 new teachers each year. It is transforming the way its human capital team works, adopting data-driven...

NCTQ welcomes its newest Board members

Dr. Selma BotmanDr. Botman has dedicated her career to higher education. She previously served as the Vice President for Academic...

Week of December 15, 2014

Teacher Prep The Missouri Supreme Court has declined to accept a case involving NCTQ’s efforts to acquire course syllabi from...

December 2014: Recap of 2014 Teacher Trendlines

As the year draws to a close, we look back on the most talked about Teacher Trendlines from 2014. We...

Week of December 8, 2014

There has been no shortage of coverage of the challenges teachers are facing as the nation’s classrooms transition to college-...