De-hooping the licensing process

Last week, Tennessee joined Rhode Island, Louisiana and Delaware in requiring teachers to show evidence of effectiveness to advance from...

The great divide continues: slow growth in teacher diversity

The National Center for Education Statistics last week released findings from the 2011-2012 School and Staffing Survey which contains the...

Matt Damon's Harsh Break-up with Public Schools

Matt Damon has been all over the media circuit these past few weeks to promote his latest film, Elysium. But...

Recalling summer in Philly

Last week, Philadelphia Superintendent William Hite announced that he needs $50 million by August 16th (tomorrow!), to open schools in...

Gotham gives feedback to teacher prep programs

The New York City Department of Education hires over 5,000 teachers each year and starting today the colleges and universities...

Fear and Loathing in... the Common Core?

"Right Sizing" of the Common Core assessment consortia may provide the key to getting more states on board in the...

Week two of the Forum

Another week, another set of responses to score appeals posted to the Forum

A visit to the BBQ Capital of the World

NCTQ recently met with the Kansas City community to discuss the state of teacher prep in Kansas and Missouri. ...

Affirmed!

The Minnesota State College and University system must provide syllabi requested under Minnesota's open records law.

Are All Degrees a Smart Investment?

Return on investment should be part of the teacher prep reform conversation.

Overmining the NAEP data

Blog warns analysts: Don't let good data collapse under faulty analysis

Forum for appeals of scores in Teacher Prep Review now online

This is the first in a series of weekly postings of appeals

Tr3 Trends: The Timing of Teacher Contracts

In this edition of our monthly school district policy newsletter, we look at which districts' teachers are working under expired...

The giant among midgets phenomenon

One takeaway for teacher prep accountability continues to emerge: outcomes data from a field that is structurally weak is insufficient.

"Beyond ludicrous" is right

Arne Duncan perfectly describes Vallas' Bridgeport CT woes