Catching up with PDQ: From our pretty darn quick blog

Timing: it's everything How to avoid pink-slip anxiety. Paying attention to classroom reality Ensuring equal opportunity to high quality education for...

Prepping teacher prep for the common core

This guest blog post is from Barry Kaufman, Ed.D. Dr. Kaufman has worked in education for more than forty years....

Timing: it's everything

State and district policy is all over the place when it comes to setting deadlines for issuing the dreaded pink...

Looking a gift horse in the mouth?

It was a close call in Seattle when the school board voted last week to continue its Teach For America...

Wealth and learning

There's an embarrassment of riches in the latest edition of the American Educator, including a defense of direct instruction, a...

Teacher opinion vs state policy

A side-by-side comparison of teacher opinion and state policy about measuring teacher effectiveness.

Spring has (officially) sprung

While spring most often brings blooms and sunshine to mind, for many school districts there is nothing rosy about the season....

The skinny on the 21 new TR3 school districts

Some facts and figures from the teacher policies in our newly-added districts.

Pensions without benefits

It is time to face the cold, hard facts: pension systems in 35 states (and counting) are underfunded and...

What do the Common Core and Core Knowledge have in common?

With the Common Core standards now being implemented in most states, and the Common Core assessments not far behind, states...

Teacher compensation reform is possible...

Imagine a district teacher compensation system without steps and lanes, without supplemental payments for extra-duties such as chairing a department,...

Rethinking a day's work

A recent 60 Minutes piece on Khan Academy and its founder, Sal Khan, put the spotlight on "flipping" the classroom. ...

National Review Myth Buster #10. We didn't invent our teacher prep standards overnight

The long, slow trek to NCTQ's teacher prep standards

TGI...Thursday?

A shorter school week appears to improve student performance

What have new teachers been taught about assessment?

Sneak preview of what we're finding in the National Review of Teacher Prep