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Teacher prep

Is NCTQ litigious?

Americans increasingly agree that the gateway into teaching ought to be a whole lot tougher. Findings released this week from...

August 2014: Student and teacher school year

It's back-to-school time for districts across the country, and there's no doubt many families have spent some time examining this...

July 2014: Teacher Tenure

This month's Trendline takes a close look at how districts in the NCTQ Teacher Contract Database are currently implementing key...

Zooming in on classroom management in The Teacher Prep Review

What changed in our Classroom Management Standard for 2014 and how did programs do?

Time to STEM the tide

Alarmingly few teacher prep programs ensure STEM knowledge

What you didn’t learn in Kindergarten:

Prep programs don’t prepare teachers for the challenges of teaching elementary math.

No cherry picking in teacher prep

Teaching is one of the most difficult professions. So why is it so easy to get into?

Seeing is believing

Which programs place their student teachers in high-poverty, high-performing schools?

Guest post: "After all, if we could develop a better program, why not?"

Patricia Schmidt, Chair of education of Five Towns College, speaks of the value of the Teacher Prep Review

Capacity gap in action

In Teacher Prep Review 2014, NCTQ called out the “capacity gap”. This is the gap between the increasingly rigorous college...

June 2014: Student enrollment

In this month's Trendline, we examine districts with the most dramatic changes in student enrollment within the 50 largest districts...

Wanted: Capable candidates who know their stuff

When alternative certification programs first got started, the theory was that ed schools were driving away the very people who could make...

Math games with early reading

What percent of the 959 programs teach the 5 components of early reading?

Best news we've gotten so far

And it comes from Diane Ravitch, no less