This month’s installment covers the new contracts in Sacramento City Unified School District, Baltimore County Public Schools, Billings Public Schools...
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...
Earlier this month, the Missouri Supreme Court declined to hear NCTQ's appeal of a lower court decision, which blocked our request that...
In the five years since most states adopted Common Core State Standards or their own version of college- and career-readiness standards, about...
Districts often ask NCTQ to identify the preparation programs that produce teachers who will stay in the classroom through thick and thin....
How do academic research and world exploration differ? In research, it's good to discover the same thing twice! Replication – research...
Over the years, there have been a gazillion studies examining the relative merit of different pathways into the teaching profession. Almost all...
The use of value-added models (VAM) to evaluate teachers and schools has never been short on critics, but this year the opposition...
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...
Dr. Selma BotmanDr. Botman has dedicated her career to higher education. She previously served as the Vice President for Academic...
Teacher Prep The Missouri Supreme Court has declined to accept a case involving NCTQ’s efforts to acquire course syllabi from...
As the year draws to a close, we look back on the most talked about Teacher Trendlines from 2014. We...
There has been no shortage of coverage of the challenges teachers are facing as the nation’s classrooms transition to college-...