Teachers having a voice, being heard

There is no better indication that teachers are fighting to be heard in the context of education reform than the...

Puzzling lack of consensus: What to teach new teachers?

A recent article in The New York Times addresses the puzzle that is teacher preparation today, featuring the Relay Graduate...

Preview of NCTQ's "rating clearinghouse" for our national review of teacher prep

With last Thursday's release of Student Teaching in the United States, there's been a barrage of criticism from teacher educators....

Student Teaching in the United States

A big topic deserves a big report, and we hope we've done justice to the importance of student teaching with...

Coming tomorrow: NCTQ releases unprecedented examination of student teaching

NCTQ's report on student teaching (available on our website tomorrow morning) documents a critical phase of teacher preparation that is...

There's always a first time...

On Thursday of this week, NCTQ will release the first-ever quantitative examination of how teacher preparation institutions conduct their student...

National Review Myth Buster #3: Independent from TFA

Our National Review of Teacher Prep is well under way. We've been working hard to coordinate with colleges, universities and...

National Review Myth Buster #2: Diverse Funders with a Common Goal of Improving Teacher Prep

Our National Review of Teacher Prep is well under way. We've been working hard to coordinate with colleges, universities and...

National Review Myth Buster #1: No bias on the basis of state regulations

Our National Review of Teacher Prep is well under way. We've been working hard to coordinate with colleges, universities,...

(New) Business as Usual

This year's Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly of the NEA produced several notable new business items. Most scathing, perhaps,...

IB's surprising indifference to teacher quality

The International Baccalaureate program has been in the news in the past few days after hitting a milestone this May:...

Alternative certification isn't alternative, redux.

Stephen Sawchuk has a good article out today about teacher residency programs. Residencies are supposed to be the most "alternative"...

Money-back guaranteed teacher preparation

Michelle Rhee, the outspoken former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools once quipped, "We're going to back-map where [teachers] came from, which...

A tale of three cities

Budget cuts are pushing thousands of Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Chicago teachers out of the classroom. While this is a sad...

Where is teacher evaluation collectively bargained?

The latest twists and turns in the Washington Teachers' Union's battle with DCPS over teacher evaluations got us thinking: Just...