Paying Attention to Classroom Reality

The connection between teacher value-added scores and educational equity

The Dropout Crisis, Close to Home

Our TR3 teacher policy database manager, Ginger Moored, is helping produce a radio series on the dropout crisis here in...

Are peer reviews the answer for overburdened principals?

The administrative burden of new teacher review processes inspires creative approaches

A False Choice on Ed School Admissions?

We don't need to choose between selectivity and diversity for tomorrow's teachers

Editorial: More on the scarlet letter frenzy

by Sandi Jacobs As we discussed in our recent blog post, we view the public reporting of individual teachers'...

Remember ABCTE? Perhaps you should

A little over a year ago, we reported on a paper showing teachers trained in a Florida college or university...

Injecting traditional schools with charter practices: The patients thrive!

Can the practices of the most effective charter schools be "injected" into their less successful non-charter counterparts? Yes, according to new...

Research: New pitfalls on using value-add data for teacher prep

With the advent of value-added methodologies, output measures have become the gold standard for measuring the impact of not just...

More school districts added to TR3 database

We've just added 21 school districts to TR3, our online database of policies governing teachers in what is now 112...

Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick blog

Months of learning v. years teaching LA layoffs quantified -- it's not pretty. Studying teacher prep: the more, the merrier A...

Do you know the school district with the smallest racial achievement gap?

TR3 closes information gaps about achievement gaps

21 School Districts Added to TR3 Database

Districts include Atlanta, New Haven, and Louisiana Recovery School District.

Months of Learning v. Years Teaching

L.A. students missed out on 8 months of learning

The Double Trouble of Teacher Turnover

Teacher attrition is disruptive in and of itself

The Scarlet I

Making ineffective teachers wear a scarlet letter--through publication of evaluation results--isn't appropriate policy.