The market works! (with a little help) ETS launching new multi-subject elementary teacher test

In response to growing demand from its state customers to offer a new elementary generalist licensing test, the Educational Testing...

Common Core Math Standards minus Good Teacher Prep equals Disaster

You've got to hand it to the editors of American Educator, the AFT's official journal on education research. They are...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, how well do I teach?

With many massive instructional interventions not even registering a blip on student performance measures, there's a new study write-up...

Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick Blog

Re-testing for results? Not quite the school-turnaround solution Ohio's policy makers would like it to be. Finally a bride It's...

Teacher prep value-added models aren't even at stage 1.0

Last Friday's announcement from the Education Department at this Ed Sector event is intended to significantly change what the nation's...

Boosting teachers... and teacher evaluations

A new piece from The Education Trust argues that improvements to traditional teacher evaluations are only fair— to everyone. Using...

Hot off the press: The latest on the value-added of teacher prep programs

Dan Goldhaber's and Stephanie Liddle's Center for Education Data & Research newly-posted working paper assessing the value-added of teacher prep...

The increasing importance of teacher preparation quality

In 1988, the most common level of experience of K-12 teachers was 14 years. Twenty years later, the overwhelmingly largest group...

Randi is Right

The AFT's Randi Weingarten nailed it last week.Commenting on the unveiling of the Obama administration's NCLB waiver plan, she told...

Character study? the gritty truth

Educators from an Upper East Side private school and a KIPP charter school in New York City are singing the...

Finally a Bride

No longer a bridesmaid, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district finally takes home this year's Broad Prize for Urban Education. (It was...

Nowhere to go but up?

The Kansas City School District just received more than a slap on the wrist for its poor performance—its state accreditation...

One of those (sets of) pictures that speaks a thousand words

Last week Rick Hess blogged about the lax grading standards in education schools as revealed in a study by economist...

Where the rubber meets the road

We recently covered some of the latest research findings, but what really happens to students, staff and the surrounding community when...

Filling the ed school glass

It is certainly no secret that NCTQ thinks too many new teachers enter their classrooms woefully unprepared by their training...