Why Providence pink-slipped all its teachers

As everyone is aware, districts are planning to lay off teachers in unprecedented proportions this summer. In Los Angeles, 5,000...

How ineffective is your teacher?

Students in high-poverty schools have yet another factor working against them: their worst teachers are actually the worst of the...

Study methods put to the test

Teachers have long been trained to help their students learn new material by filling countless whiteboards with artistic arrangements...

NCTQ announces additions to its Advisory Board

NCTQ would like to announce the addition of five new members to our Advisory Board. Readers will notice a...

2010 State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Blueprint for Change

NCTQ has just released its fourth 52-volume State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Blueprint for Change, in which we review what states...

Editorial: Parsing the difference between what is and what could be

By Julie Greenberg and Kate Walsh We know we're not cool for saying so, but teacher preparation, if it were done...

Teacher dismissals: I thought you'd never leave

This month, the Mount Vernon, Ohio school district officially said goodbye to teacher John Freshwater, two and half years...

Seniority-based layoffs losing ground--again

There's new evidence of the negative impact on students from seniority based layoffs. Economist Dan Goldhaber with fellow researcher Roddy...

Training, shmaining...Once again teacher preparation comes to naught

A second study out of Florida has failed to find the value of any pre-service teacher preparation -- or of...

Which states are wasting the most money?

State and district salary schedules continue to reward teachers for earning master's degrees and higher, despite the fact that study...

Measuring the $ worth of great--and not so great--teachers

Unhappy with your current salary? Maybe you can blame your teachers. Based on what we know about the effects...

Turn over a rock on absences, find another rock to turn over on testing

An NBER working paper from Jonah Rockoff and Mariesa Hermann has quantified what every school-age child knows: not much...

An apple for Mrs. Avatar?

American teachers may fume that the scripted curricula they are asked to use makes them into nothing more than robots,...

New publications from NCTQ's district shop:

Districts have much work to do to improve their teacher policies, according to two new NCTQ publications released by NCTQ...

Spread the word -- there's a great job opportunity at NCTQ!

We're looking for a new staff person in our Washington,D.C. office who wants to be at the center of our...