Announcement

The International Dyslexia Association's conference next month is featuring a session on leveraging reading legislation at the state-level: Literacy Legislation...

Teacher Voice in the Deseret News

Utah high school teacher and Deseret News blogger Mary McConnell has been working her way up our unofficial blog roll...

Mentoring matters

NCES report shows that mentoring can significantly reduce attrition rates among new teachers

What teachers think about teacher prep

Results from our survey of teachers on the programs that prepared them

Sea change in teacher effectiveness policies

n advance of our 2011 State Teacher Policy Yearbook (due out in January), we've pulled together an analysis of the...

State school boards want teacher prep to catch up with . . . the NCAA

Well, not exactly. But two stories over the past couple of days reminded us that teacher prep could take a...

Second this call for transparency

In a recent letter to the Department of Education's Inspector General, U.S. Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA)...

Burning the candle?

Chicago isn't the only school district these days facing an uproar over extending the school day

Gone already?

Like top NFL draft picks, the best teaching applicants are snapped up early. However, school district hiring schedules rarely accommodate...

A lesson to be learned from the teaching profession

In a recent piece written for The New Yorker, Atul Gawande laments the fact that no one has checked on...

The power of perception

Teacher evaluations are an already complicated subject. Throw in the added complication of having the same individual serve the function...

Warren Buffett's right on the money

At the Education Nation Summit a few weeks back Warren Buffett said: "A great teacher does not get paid like...

How popular are defined benefit pension plans?

With pension reform high on the agenda of recession-strapped states, defenders of the status quo are feeling the heat. ...

Massachusetts take two: Springfield style

Today NCTQ released a study on the Springfield, Massachusetts school district, our second study in the state. It's a district that,...

National Review Myth Buster #8: Standards on coursework are NOT arbitrary

Over the last few months, we've worked to dispel myths and misconceptions regarding our national review of teacher preparation programs. Today's...