Taking a look at charter schools operated by schools of education
Is NCTQ litigious?
A review of Elizabeth Green's "Building A Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)"
Time to STEM the tide
Seeing is believing
No cherry picking in teacher prep
Zooming in on classroom management in The Teacher Prep Review
Guest post: "After all, if we could develop a better program, why not?"
Wanted: Capable candidates who know their stuff
Capacity gap in action
What you didn?t learn in Kindergarten:
Best news we've gotten so far
Top ranked teacher prep programs
Math games with early reading
TPR 2014: Slowly, the teacher prep mountain begins to move
Top five questions that NCTQ's Teacher Prep Review 2014 will answer at midnight
Give a teacher a fish . . .
Teacher Prep Review 2014: Overcoming the Capacity Gap
Victory for Students in California?and Students Everywhere
Taking roll on teacher attendance
Let?s Make a Deal - North Carolina teachers edition
Important Data from California on Teacher Evaluations (Yes, California)
Why I hate (pension) math
A roadmap for improvement in the City of Bridges
Focus on the locus: Keeping high school students "On Track" to graduation
Checking in on Dayton
Want to join a committee?
Getting to the fine print in New York
Appreciating our Teacher Advisory Group
A tribute to Horace Mann
Start spreading the news! New York teachers have a new tentative agreement
Not much of a draw
Minnesota student teaching placement bill fails
She?s really nice, but?.
Rulemaking on teacher prep programs returns to center stage, NCTQ endorses DOE's action
"No Way" to San Jose
The Feds get serious on teacher prep
North Carolina's tenure shenanigans
Young professionals see big potential in teacher prep reform
Classroom management and TNTP's Core Teaching Rubric
A teacher's perspective on assessment data
Who's tougher? State bureaucrats or states' constitutions?
Tax Time
Spring may be here, but some districts still have to deal with winter
New from NCTQ: Teacher evaluation timelines
Illinois ed schools recognize what state does not
Light it up Blue!
Memorize to think critically. . .
The dreaded B: good enough for a man but...
Putting basic skills first in Illinois
Equity can't be addressed without looking at opportunity
Show me the (retirement) money!
The new buzz is the same as the old buzz: Foundational early reading skills and the Common Core
Student achievement matters most
March Madness!
Got grit? Novice teachers with 'grit' stay longer, perform better
Expanding the NCTQ Teacher Contract Database: Charter Management Organizations
Can you answer this multiple choice question about the Common Core?
New ed tech platforms unveiled
Classroom Management at the push of a button
Classroom management brought to your screen!
Portland Avoids Teachers Strike
Catching up on contracts
Advanced Finnish Lessons
Trial and error in the trenches
A preview of NCTQ Teacher Prep Review 2014
Operation better assignments
Unassigned teachers, many deemed ineffective, could head back to NYC classrooms
State Policy Yearbook: Elementary math adds up in some states
What does it take to get a snow day around here?
Shiny New State Policy Website
Someone cheated. Who's responsible?
President Obama positions education as the backdrop to success
New from NCTQ: 31 states improve grades in latest State Teacher Policy Yearbook
A New System for Evaluating Professional Development
What PISA tells us about the economic gap
Districts struggle to have a fair share of effective teachers in low income schools
Testing redux
When walkthroughs fail: New research on principals' instructional leadership
Preventing the word gap
The IES Practice Guide authors must be smiling!
Yet more apps for teachers
Reading instruction resources for all!
Common Core... There's an app for that
NCTQ Audit Panel grows
Ready for their close-up (on classroom management)?
2014 Edu Resolutions
Year-end update to the Teacher Prep Review
The value-add of value-add
Tis the season to give back to teachers
Twas the day before break
Season of sharing
Ta-da for TUDA!
Help us send a resounding message to colleges of education
The education election?
A "b" is not a "d"
Cleaning up classroom management after the "clean up bell" fails
Snow Days
Revisiting Springfield, Massachusetts
What do new teachers learn about classroom management? Not nearly enough
My superpower is teaching, what is yours?
Catching up on contracts
Tuesday is PISA Day
NCTQ announces new board officers
Goldilocks and teacher evaluations
DQC: More states sharing teacher performance data with teacher prep
Unequal class sizes for all?
We have to build it first. Then they'll come.
Another case for more minority teachers
Chasing equity solutions
Today's NAEP scores: Pay attention to the bright spots
Edu Election Results
Battle Royale: CCSS resolve and old habits
More teacher prep information is on the way
Beyond the headlines: The cost of on-the-job training
Keeping up with. . . Botswana?
Is teaching drawing in more talent?
# EduGeekCostumes
New from NCTQ: Are states connecting the dots between teacher evaluations and other key policies?
Teacher Takeaways
Reviewing the Review (and other types of teacher prep evaluation)
Putting on my teacher hat
Learning from teachers
The Gray Lady takes up teacher prep
What influences social status of teachers?
Is IMPACT having an impact?
Do we have a deal?
A later start to a better day
Survey says . . . Teachers support the Common Core
Imagine that
Catching up on contracts
Happy Head Start Awareness Month
Pieces of the puzzle fitting together
No man should stand alone
REAChing for trust in teacher evaluations
Guest post: We might as well be rubbing ice on their little heads
Get an 8-month jump on Teacher Appreciation Week!
The Pen is Mightier than the Censor
Twitter insights: College majors revealed
NCTQ wins an Eddie award from the Policy Innovators in Education Network
Re-stirring the already stirred alt cert research pot
If you can read this...
The Forum: An update on appeals by institutions to change their ratings in the Teacher Prep Review
Teacher Prep: Be all you can be?
Get smart!
Announcing NCTQ's Teacher Advisory Group!
What makes great teachers great?
Sorting for equity?
Now teacher prep in California can do more with more
Making a difference for English language learners
If a contract expires and nothing changes....
Welcome to the ratings business, Mr. President!
Back to school
Incentivizing early retirement or effectiveness?
When it comes to reading, we've all got a lot of work to do
De-hooping the licensing process
The great divide continues: slow growth in teacher diversity
Matt Damon's Harsh Break-up with Public Schools
Recalling summer in Philly
Gotham gives feedback to teacher prep programs
Say what? The research may not say what you think it says
Week two of the Forum
Fear and Loathing in... the Common Core?
Affirmed!
A visit to the BBQ Capital of the World
Are All Degrees a Smart Investment?
Overmining the NAEP data
Forum for appeals of scores in Teacher Prep Review now online
The giant among midgets phenomenon
"Beyond ludicrous" is right
Catching up on contracts
What gives? Is Chicago not far off from Detroit's pension woes?
A pregnant time - for teacher prep
Sometimes consistency is key
The war against widgets: Using evaluation data to inform hiring and placement of teachers
The facts in a syllabus
Teacher prep resources: Many thanks to IHEs who shared!
Gateway to success
Where is biology not biology?
Teacher Voices: Being paired with a really strong teacher during student teaching is powerful
High-stakes weekend ahead for Philadelphia schools
Teacher voices: Susan on how teacher prep can support learning lesson planning and Common Core
Spotlight on teacher policies in Dayton
Teacher voices: Marisol on using data in the classroom
How can I train to become an effective teacher in spite of my program's low rating?
Teacher voices: A call for more content
Teacher voices: Leighton on teacher prep and learning to teach elementary math
Selecting and Signaling for Great Candidates
We'd love to do more work!
An awesome responsibility
Teacher voices: Dowan on teacher prep and selection criteria
Nipping errors in the bud
Teacher Voices: Consistency is the name of the game
Teacher voices: Eliza on teacher prep and student teaching
Teacher voices: Marisol on teacher prep and student teachers
An inside look at some of the top teacher prep programs
Teacher voices: David on teacher prep and using student data
Teacher voices: Alexandra on teacher prep and using student data
Teacher voices: Vonzele on teacher prep and learning classroom management strategies
Teacher voices: Matt on teacher prep and learning classroom management strategies
Teacher voices: Stephanie on teacher prep and licensure
Teacher voices: Kylene on teacher prep and special education math
Teacher voices on teacher preparation
Welcome to our new site!
It all adds up
Pensions: The bump in any fiscal road
Guest post: The importance of content knowledge in teaching mathematics
Scientists read too!
Steadily beating the drum for practice...practice...practice...
Guest post: The basics teachers need in order to get students past the basics
Student teaching done smartly
Guest post: The Real World -- Classroom Style
The scoop on teacher policies in Philly
The First State does it again
Making "just a teacher" obsolete
The little Blue Engine that could
The Philadelphia Story
MEGA news for new teachers in Missouri
The nation's back pages are putting teacher prep on the front burner
We wanted to send you an apple...but instead we wrote you a poem
Teacher prep and the gift of a good night's sleep
The Recession's Impact on Teacher Salaries
Lessons from abroad: linking teacher prep to classroom realities
Ahh, springtime. Cherry blossoms, cicadas, and state tests.
Guest post: First days of teaching -- Practicing and preparing for classroom management
Guest post: The New Teacher Toolbox -- Do they have what they need?
Will the Tennessee Achievement District tempt teachers?
Shoring up the front lines in middle school
Value and challenges in using student data for teacher prep accountability
A sure bet: investing in early childhood
Not knowing what they don't know
Leap year lessons for all
Should they stay or should they go: Teachers in turnaround schools
The Evolution of an Evaluation System
Which pension plan will teachers choose?
Teachin' math? Get your Body Movin'
A Play-by-Play of the Detroit School District Tug-of-War
Public enthusiasm for evaluation blows hot and cold
Where two of the helping professions could use a little help themselves
When the teacher shortage myth might not be a myth
NCTQ's Sweet 16
Sneak peek on our Review: More evidence of fiefdoms in higher ed
The bigotry of low (teacher) expectations
Are teacher educators trapped?
The value-added two-step
The tricky art of self-portraiture
Shoring up teacher quality by the bay
Connecticut Values Rankings
Yes, No, or Ask again later: predicting teacher performance
Who's in charge of teacher prep?
Raising Standards Down Under
High Standards for Teachers
Jindal bit off more than the judge could chew
From: GOOD, To: Great Teachers
Congress gets a lesson on teacher quality
Doing more with more teacher prep in California
Testing the gym teacher
All roads are leading to improved teacher prep
Quartering the Cash Cow?
Performance-Pay-Lite Won't Cut It
Mirror, mirror on the wall, can one VAM score tell us all?
Rewarding top teachers: A fourth way of getting teacher quality
Data vacuum: State intel on principals a black hole
CAEP flies high on selectivity
Feedback loop-de-loop
Putting COLA on a diet
What a short stint as a special ed aide taught me
There's something funny going on with reading textbooks
Menifee USD: Where innovation meets professional development
Are education school profs observing teachers and students in classrooms?
Giving credit for student attendance and grit
The transparency imperative
Comment-Worthy Clips
Relieving teacher anxiety on test scores
My dog ate my excuse note
Sneak Peek
Restoring the balance
Helping States Improve Teacher Preparation
Update on the evaluation gorges
The year of teacher prep
It's that time of year again!
Maximizing the returns from teacher evaluation
Up with teacher prep, down with "one strike and you're out"
Any argument will do?
Transparency takes hold in Ohio
Teachers have Market-Based and Performance Pay, but no Union Representation
'Fiscal Limbo' is not a game schools want to play
From Fiscal Cliffs to Evaluation Gorges
Making tenure more than a timestamp
More trials ahead for Chicago?
Has anyone seen the teacher pipeline's invisible hand?
When the school safety 'solution' is more terrifying than the problem
Bringing in the new year with kale, yogurt and edu-premonitions
Stories of teacher talent across the nation
Getting some sleep
Calling the States to Action
Isn't the University of Missouri in the Show Me State?
Politicizing a tragedy...Count us in
Leveraging needed changes in teacher production
Uh-oh
Pension status quo: No one benefits
LA: There aren't any winners in this deal
Panning for teacher talent takes more than one tool
Teacher quality and teacher pay: The hole in the bucket problem?
Build it and they will come
The Holiday Season is Upon Us
Some things aren't bigger in Texas
Present!
Anti-VAM Fever Spikes in LA
A visit to an ed school
Raising the bar, raising the profession
More work to do in the Wolverine State
Good parameters make good partners
Teacher evaluation in the City of Angels
Shaking off the post-tryptophan torpor
The prep/placement nexus
Front-load
Playing detective with the Race to the Top District applicants
Problem solving
Professional Development 2.0 (yes it can evolve)
New Twists to Detroit and Des Moines Teacher Contracts
Teachers from the front line
Teachers from the front line
Election Recap - Superlative Style
Teacher Prep News Round-Up: November 9
The district and the union: not the Aesop Fable you know
A Teacher Leader Ladder
New in Tr3: Compare district and state policies side-by-side
Vote for the kids!
A middle ground on performance pay
Guest Post: How we stopped guessing and hired smart
Getting the Teacher Prep Review right
What's the latest on teacher evaluation?
Take note! We're offering new subscriber options for our content
A victory for transparency
A victory for transparency
How strong are teacher unions?
Cloudy with a chance of...
Newark uses dollars to make sense
How(EdReform)StuffWorks: Student surveys edition
Where spinning and teacher prep intersect
Wagon circling or soul searching: It's up to you, teacher prep
What to make of more school district certification of teachers
Teacher Ed: Close some doors
Practice Like a Champion
How We Stopped Guessing and Hired Smart
Our commitment to getting the Review right
Practice Like A Champion
Right to Know: An ad campaign for transparency
Helping Teachers Shine a Light on Great Schools
The need to train teachers
An ed school dean's thoughts on use of teacher effectiveness data to evaluate teacher prep
The false dichotomy between "fixing poverty" and "fixing schools"
Interviewing is a two-way street
What's appealing in Chicago
Appealing in Chicago?
A Conversation with Indiana University's Gerardo Gonzalez
How I was evaluated as a first-year teacher
What's the Latest on Teacher Evaluation?
A Great Calc 2 Teacher is Hard to Find
Still Widgets?
Show me the money...now or later?
The Two-Pronged Approach
We're back to school in Chicago -- Now what?
Here's the deal on the deal (updated)
Here's the deal on the (potential) deal
Chicago-area teacher salaries: How do they compare?
Teacher Prep News Round-up: September 14
Chicago teacher: I find myself torn
Facts and figures on the Chicago teacher strike
The Chicago Strike by the Numbers
Teachers as first responders
A textbook example for improving student achievement
Climbing up to stay in
Basal readers and the Common Core
Are strikes legal? Does it matter?
Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick blog
Job opening - Research Manager, Teacher Preparation Studies
TR3 Trends Newsletter: School Year Length and Summer Break
A closer look at teacher leave benefits
State teacher prep policies at a glance
The big tent of teacher prep reform
Make a teacher's (Labor) Day
Friday teacher prep news round up -- How urgent is teacher prep reform?
State Teacher Prep Policies At a Glance
What we wish we had known
Going for the Gold?
Loving children is not enough
Friday Teacher Prep Round-Up
A Wish List for New Teachers
Maximizing return on 3rd grade reading initiatives
How to learn
The art of becoming a teacher: Lessons from 1892
Teachers' mantle of martyrdom still rests on many shoulders
edTPA: Slow this train down
Test entry
Behind the headlines: Court throws out settlement protecting LA's poorest schools from layoffs
Teacher Prep News Round-Up: The online ed degree rocket, Alt-route Minnesota and more
Will education have its Pronovost moment?
An online ed degree bubble?
The big tent of teacher prep reform
The School Year Shuffle
In research we trust?
Unflipping the switch
Teacher prep news round up
Hard to reach for the stars when there's no fuel in the tank
Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick blog
NCTQ Job Opening: Research Manager, Teacher Preparation Studies
Latest TR3 Trends Newsletter
A New Look Coming to Your TQB
A teacher is a teacher is a teacher . . . except when she's not
Loss aversion: The new catch-phrase in merit pay debates
The new black in ed reform?
How much leave do teachers get?
Chicago win is but a first step
If the suit fits...
Clock's ticking, but students can't wait
Time for a National Council on Principal Quality?
The impact of principal turnover on schools
Catching up with Georgia's teacher evaluation turmoil
Shiny, quick-fix fads
It's Complicated: Update to Fairfax County teacher dismissal case
New teacher production numbers... it's a long tail
Scienglish
Fireworks in the Big Apple
Is teaching an art or a science?
Do districts help foster teachers' peer relationships?
Broader, Bolder vs. Holistic, Audacious
Keeping up with TQB
Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick blog
Good News for High-Need Schools
We all know more is better...but is more possible?
Was there ever any doubt?
Is Dan Willingham Pro-Bracelet?
Pensions and risks you might not have thought about
Another thanks to state school chiefs
New Ed Trust report on improving school working conditions
Threading the needle on public access to teacher ratings
Student test score jujitsu
The problem of Having Too Much Potential for Teaching
Connecticut's Son of TR3
A War of Attrition
Catholic innovation born out of the will to survive
Another thought-provoking Goldstein proposition
Think before you flip
Getting at the root of the STEM problem in Tennessee
Implementing the Common Core in DC Public Schools
Weighing the hours in Chicago
Fixing reading from A to Z
Ruby Bridges, Muscles and Teacher Prep
The Low Bar of Licensure
A high five to Hawaii
What certification could mean
How to cut teacher unemployment in Michigan
It's complicated: Washington Post profiles district efforts to dismiss a teacher
Quick run down of NCTQ monthly bulletin
Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick blog
Swaying with the breeze on teacher prep
Report says chronic absenteeism is a problem; urban teachers issue 'captain obvious' award
Here's to a job well done--or was it?
What teachers aren't learning about assessment
Lawsuit in California takes an unusual approach
A Teacher's Perspective
New in TR3: School Restructuring and Redesign
State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Did you know?
What teachers aren't learning about assessment...and we mean ANY kind of assessment
The cost of a buyout
Let the Teachers Tell the Story
Early reading in the Rockies
How much time do teachers get for collaboration?
Don't overdo it on reading comprehension strategies
A pension myth debunked
Do ed schools prepare teachers to use data on student learning?
Teacher voices
New in TR3: Which districts use third-party evaluators?
TPA DOA at UMass
How NOT to appreciate teachers
Thank you, teachers
National Teacher Appreciation Week is here
New Sunshine in Collective Bargaining
Beyond Finland
Hint, hint
Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick blog
Prevention and remediation key to smart third grade reading policies
Closing the gender achievement gap
Is your auto-grading software smarter than a fifth grader?
Meet NEA upstart Maddie Fennell
Keeping up with TQB
Getting comfortable with "value added"
The Common Core Honeymoon
National Review Myth Buster #11: We didn't invent our teacher prep standards without teacher educator advice
A drumbeat for higher ed to have higher purpose
What is going on in Connecticut?
A teacher's thoughts on the teacher shuffle
Throwing down the gauntlet
State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Breaking it Down
Lunch with Betsy Arons
A Serious Approach to Reading
Rankings Get Support
The scoop on class size
What's your disposition?
No Surprise, There's No Consensus
New Data on Subs
You heard that right
Raising up the profession by raising the bar on teacher prep
The teacher shuffle: getting the best teachers where they're most needed
Students ace school board primary in Prince George's
TNTP hones in on the next frontier
A suspension...of disbelief
This time Wisconsin gets it right
What do people think of teacher prep?
Time for a veteran teacher corps?
Keeping up with TQB
Catching up with PDQ: From our pretty darn quick blog
Goldilocks and pensions
Heard enough about teacher evals? Us too--let's talk principals
Breathing the air of success in student teaching
What it takes to cross the Finnish line: it takes more than we've been led to believe
Prepping teacher prep for the common core
Timing: it's everything
Looking a gift horse in the mouth?
Wealth and learning
Teacher opinion vs state policy
Spring has (officially) sprung
Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick Blog
School turnarounds: Who's really left behind?
STAR continues to shine a light on teacher effectiveness
Choosing talented teachers
Book review: Brill offers beach reading for the ed reform set
Thank you, Council of the Great City Schools
Pensions without benefits
The skinny on the 21 new TR3 school districts
What do the Common Core and Core Knowledge have in common?
Teacher compensation reform is possible...
Rethinking a day's work
TGI...Thursday?
What have new teachers been taught about assessment?
Paying Attention to Classroom Reality
National Review Myth Buster #10. We didn't invent our teacher prep standards overnight
The Dropout Crisis, Close to Home
Are peer reviews the answer for overburdened principals?
Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick blog
More school districts added to TR3 database
Research: New pitfalls on using value-add data for teacher prep
Injecting traditional schools with charter practices: The patients thrive!
Remember ABCTE? Perhaps you should
Editorial: More on the scarlet letter frenzy
A False Choice on Ed School Admissions?
Do you know the school district with the smallest racial achievement gap?
Months of Learning v. Years Teaching
21 School Districts Added to TR3 Database
The Scarlet I
Studying teacher prep: the more, the merrier
The Double Trouble of Teacher Turnover
It Starts At the Top
You're Hired!
With all due RESPECT
A Tale of Two States
A Call to Action in Miami
Connecticut Gets Serious About Teacher Quality
Pay day in Chicago
Being a leader isn't always easy
Teachers, will you be our Valentine?
Chester-Upland: Don't let this happen in your backyard
Science fiction at the White House Science Fair
The pulse: what are states doing to expand the teaching pool?
Luddites, technophiles, and student data...oh my!
Helicopter parenting gets new meaning in New Hampshire
States need to zoom in on teacher prep
NCTQ announces additions to Board of Directors and Advisory Board
Catching up with PDQ: From our pretty darn quick blog
What money doesn't appear to be buying
More evidence that all tests are not created equal?
Feeling the heat in Miami
Duh or not Duh? That is the question.
Yearbook 2011: Who's up a lot, who's up a little, and who's not up at all
LIFO: the education acronym of the year
Full-court press
Raising the Bar
What's the use?
2011 State Teacher Policy Yearbook: No Ordinary Year
Learning how to give--and receive
The newest nest egg: malleable intelligence
Miami (ad)vice
Essay questions making a comeback?
Hollywood clashes with NEA
Saying No to the NEA
Uncanny parallels in professional training
Not Enough Transparency in the Bayou State
One Small Step for Pension Reform
RE teacher evaluations: New MET findings out today!
The cowardly lion phenomenon in accountability for teacher prep
New Data on the Teacher Prep Pipeline
The clinical immersion model of teacher prep
CATCHING UP WITH PDQ: FROM OUR PRETTY DARN QUICK BLOG
More on lax grading standards in teacher prep
More on teacher prep selectivity
The student teaching tsunami reaches . . . South Dakota?
The teaching profession's chicken-and-egg problem
Twas the week before Christmas
The x-Factor in elementary teacher prep
The Social Media Debate Continues
Made a list, checked it twice
Transparency Central gets an upgrade
TNTP offers new award for extraordinary teaching
NEW in TR3: Maximum teacher salaries
The student teacher tsunami turns rogue wave
Selectivity or Bust
Hitting a nerve or hitting the nail on the head?
New FRL data show recession's impact
A win-win-win situation
Calling All College Students
Catching up with PDQ: From our pretty darn quick blog
Check out big changes to TR3, our district database
Evaluating preschool teachers--oh yeah, them too!
Pre-K pays off--but how are we at delayed gratification?
Instant gratification in Texas
We're grateful for research like this...and can we see some more?
Look up salaries in LA, layoff procedures in DC, class size ceilings in NYC, and more!
We've sorted through thousands of documents so you don't have to.
Playing to win
Have you checked out our new database?
NCTQ welcomes new VP for Policy, Sandi Jacobs
NCTQ Advisory Board grabs four greats
State-level reports on teacher quality
Wisconsin governor to lift teacher pay cap
Major bonuses in NC: Super size me
Rejecting teacher bonuses: Secret motives, secret ballot
Florida's STAR: Falling to Earth?
SC Governor's bored with the National Board
Ed Sector tallies teacher benies
In Michigan, out go the bottom three
Bloomberg/Klein tag team tackles tenure
Pied Piper of Policy Papers: Tough Choices or Tough Times
The grievance game
What school leaders do and don't want
Performance pay in colder climes
Supreme Court to Weigh in on Union Politicking
We are not alone, but that doesn't make it any better
Qualification overkill in California
State governments flex their muscles
Chicago and Baltimore: Retrained to retain
TEAC: Nipping at the Heels of NCATE
How Not to Solve Teacher Shortages
Announcement
Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick Blog
New from NCTQ: October releases
More evidence that matching teacher and student race matters
Positive news on performance pay
Studying teacher prep's value: Once a trickle, now a flood?
Fear of commitment? Not for these TFA corps members
Just the research we all want to see: Multiple measures doesn't mean muddied mess
Teacher layoffs: Did the sky fall or not?
Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick Blog
Mirror, mirror on the wall, how well do I teach?
Common Core Math Standards minus Good Teacher Prep equals Disaster
The market works! (with a little help) ETS launching new multi-subject elementary teacher test
Charter schools: Robbing Peter to pay Paul?
Anyone in the mood for another test?
Souring on the "Dance of the Lemons"
Making tenure count in the Big Apple
Also in DC: Principals get a dose of their own medicine
Inside the DC IMPACT evaluation numbers: It's good stuff
The "make or break" of teacher prep: Student teaching
Funding Gap
Florida Set to Shrink
Whose Union Is It?
Out of the Jailhouse, Into the Classroom
Merit Pay Updates
Merit Pay: Not So Fast, Governors!
USA Today Accepting All-Teacher Nominations
Quote of the Week
Class, Please Pass Forward Your Homework and My Salary
ETS Report Dissects the Achievement Gap
In Britain, National Teacher Strike Averted
Michigan Introduces New Standards; Hopes to Improve Teaching, Achievement
NBPTS Continues to Grow
Cash on the Line for AP Tests
Playing Pass-the-Buck with Pennsylvania Pensions
Meeting the Highly Qualified Paraprofessional Challenge
Producing Teachers Who Know Their Subject
CCSSO to tackle teacher prep
Fordham Fellows
NCTQ Internships and Fellowships Available
Dive into our data
Nobody's getting along
Does anyone else do it better?
Greene versus Goliath
Root and STEM
Whole language wolves in SBRR clothing
A Mass-ive letdown
Mentoring takes a blow in the Windy City
Teacher quality research recap
The Effectiveness Conundrum
From our readers
Brief items
A closer look at math and science ed in California
Accreditation acrimony
Schwarzenegger and Spitzer take on the hiring and firing status quo
Resisting alternatives
Fixing the Ed.D: Good luck with that!
Too many teachers being trained in Michigan---and no wonder, the benefits are great
This study and $4 will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks
Myths behind the Career Ladder: rungs and hoops
STAR implodes, Florida changes course with new MAP: The skinny on Florida's new pay plan
Accreditation redux
Reading, writing and...dating?
Math for America: At what price success?
Reading research: Do you believe in magic?
Hawaii teachers burning the midnight oil
Basing new regs on gut checks: Florida's Pre-K certification initiative
Changes afoot at ABCTE: states, stats and status
AERA gone wild! Goldhaber sobers 'em up!
No Recommendation Left Behind
And Finally, the Release of NCTQ's State Teacher Policy Yearbook
New principles for principals
Have your cake...and pay for it, too!
Bad ideas in Big Sky country
Feel the PULSE: Performance Pay Plan for Principals in Pittsburgh
Q Comp Squeaks through in Minnesota
Philadelphia Story
The sky is falling in California
How many chances should a teacher get?
Time to Retire Teacher Pensions in Illinois and Michigan?
Parent Attitudes Towards Achievement
Big City School Leaders: Several Newcomers on Deck
Going Green or Saving Green?
Bargaining Budgets
Transition to Teaching: Dishing the Dough without the Data
The Wooing of Teach For America
New Orleans Wants You--To Teach
Supreme Battles over Union Dues
Does AFT Support Differential Pay? Hard to Say...
Educator Quality Takes Another Slam: Abysmal GRE Scores Across the Board
Merit Pay Rocks Denver--but not NEA Convention
Is Performance Pay its own Worse Enemy?
A Case of Unusual Bedfellows in Los Angeles: A Teachers Union for Charter Schools
From Teacher Knowledge to Testing Standards in NJ: A Missing Link?
How Does Your Teacher Behave
W. VA. Lawmakers Seek Fairness through 'Locality Pay'
Show them the Money? Pay Issues Casting Shadow on Urban Superintendents
Footing the Bill for Mayoral Control
Kindergarten Cop in Nevada
A System Without Teeth has no Bite
NEW SUIT Challenges Ed on HQT
New Studies Offer Different Perspective on Teacher Retention
Another baby step toward mayoral control
A light bulb goes on in Baltimore
And still more on performance pay
ASPIRE! MAP! STAR! REAL! How about a little less time on cute acronyms, more on program design!
Teachers really, really hate performance pay
Teacher absenteeism takes its toll
Fixing alternative certification
Looking for love in all the wrong places
Available now: Lesson plans from Ed Sector
Jefferson County Part 2: Race and teacher assignments
Tired of New York yet? Housing perks for urban teachers
More New York: Bouncing off the walls in the Rubber Room
We're all about New York: mentoring program discarded
TFA storms the world
Do the crime, pay the time...But you can still teach
Union-district rift begins in DC
Milwaukee shows how to do it
New York shows districts can improve teacher quality gap
Teacher turnover: Not all doom and gloom
New York City: A deal at any cost
Fiscal fiasco in the City of Angels
TeacherInsight--Insightful screening device or education gobbledy gook?
Personally, I never wanted to know if my math teacher was good in bed
How not to do performance pay
New performance pay initiatives--we can't keep up
Sweet deals turning sour: the woes of the teacher pension system
Salaries matter, class sizes don't
Finally UTeach expands
A big step forward in holding ed schools accountable
Resignations, review boards and gotcha units: It's hard out there for a teacher
Busting myths about teacher attrition
How the best performing school systems come out on top
Letter to the editor
Fabulous new positions...
Up in smoke: drug testing program for teachers challenged by ACLU
Interactive virtual tutor teaches math, creeps people out
Houston: Keep trying until you get it right
State legislatures rethinking teacher pay
News Flash: US teacher training in mathematics found lacking
How much of a problem is teacher absenteeism?
Three stooges tussle for control of LA schools
Paging Pollyanna! ETS releases rosy report on teacher quality
Farewell to Lew Solomon
Errata for ETS
Looking for a good fit
Multicultural math: Count to ten with Paolo Friere
Health insurance gets competitive in Michigan
Principal training from Georgia to Texas
Is it valid? New evaluation tool for principals
The UFT: Willing to put skin in the game
Pink slips for hundreds of Chicago teachers
Labor tensions--and procrastination-- in Minnesota
On how the NEA spends its money and why some teachers don't like it
Our take on Quality Counts
Two new reports we recommend...
Lay off the seniority
Honing in on the weakest link: school principals
Tax breaks for teachers
Governor Lingle: still making waves in Hawaii
Surprise! Professional development--at least in reading--worth a dime
Temp agencies for teachers--the wave of the future?
Performance pay moves to the grown-ups' table
Colorado gets innovative
Ms. Weingarten goes to Washington?
Reassigning teachers to low-performing schools: the latest
Closing the teacher quality gap
Are you all 4 ed?
AACTE plays peacemaker between NCATE and TEAC: A wolf in sheep's clothing?
Study of Milwaukee public school teachers echoes findings in various states
Baltimore teachers told they must learn to share
Unions and state governments place bet on slot-based funding
Parents as teachers: Home schooling under fire in California
Six figures for teachers
Does reducing class size reduce the achievement gap?
No basic skills waivers for the Hoosier State
An epitaph? Math Wars, R.I.P., 1989-2008
Teacher tenure in New York
It's time we teachers threw off our mantle of martyrdom
Research competition: Call for proposals
Errata
Telling it like it is?
NCTQ mourns loss of teacher accountability initiative in New York
Court rules state unions must disclose financial reports
North Carolina gets tough with charter schools
How many chances should a teacher get, revisited
Helping teachers improve: The real secret to Benwood's success
TNTP looks at NYC's excess of excessed teachers
Impressive results for Teach For America
The teaching penalty
NCTQ invite: No Common Denominator release
DC restructuring
It pays to be excessed in Detroit
Teacher layoffs: bad for business
Texas districts duel for teachers
Indianapolis: Stuck between a rock and a hard place
Iowa governor vetoes bargaining bill expansion
Teaching reading is fundamental
No easy answers: The shades of grey of equity issues
Semi-finalists for Tr3 research competition
New staff at NCTQ
New York City teacher retirement plans are AWESOME!
Most brain based education claims bogus
Nontraditional pay pals
Massachusetts governor tweaks unions with proposal
Preschool is not daycare
National Board certification: Not exactly a silver bullet
Is laughter the best medicine here?
Good riddance? Attrition and effectiveness
Kumbaya in Toledo?
Teaching math is never a simple equation
Spies like us?
Teacher mentoring in the Big Apple
New federal grant might be a groan
Charter schools on hold in Delaware
Apprenticeship better than gumption?
Wanted: Teachers who make the grade
Let the sun shine on teacher pensions
Class size debate lives on
Smart teachers matter
Dream contract: D.C. goes for broke
Where does the real power reside when it comes to the rules and rights of teachers?
Spankings and firm discipline resurrected
Will Georgia's 'Class Keys' unlock the door to better instruction?
Why teachers leave in Connecticut
The Charlotte shuffle: Winners and losers reveal pitfall of equitable distribution
Going after the low hanging fruit in New Jersey
A good deed to raise academic standards that will not go unpunished
When the marriage gets old: Universities running failing schools
HEA reauthorization: Will it improve teacher prep?
Legislators to teachers: We're broke and fickle
Denver pay alive and kicking
Man behind the poker hand: Q & A with Washington Teachers' Union President George Parker
NCTQ welcomes new advisory board members
Of NCLB and presidential platforms
Potential mid-career teachers not oriented toward city schools
But is she smarter than a sophomore?
No boys allowed: motherly bias against male teachers
Subs Sub Rosa in Clark County, Nevada
AFT launches million dollar fund for teacher developed reform
Montana teachers leaving for higher salaries in Wyoming
The long wait: how the traditional salary schedule harms teaching
Peer Assistance and Review: Is the whole less than the sum of its parts?
Shake up over displaced teachers in the Big Apple
Getting the facts straight about D.C.'s "Plan B"
Save the date: NCTQ conference on collective bargaining
Webinar for journalists on covering teachers' contract negotiations
State sanctioned teachers alongside rookies in high poverty schools
Paying for autonomy: has it been worth the price?
Performance pay in Oregon: Reject the messenger, not the message
Klein and Weingarten agree on something, kind of
Light on the horizon for credible research on teacher education
First of its kind proposal in Grand Rapids
It's Friday and Halloween--is your child with a sub?
Milwaukee teacher benefits add to district's woes
Chicago sends middle school teachers back to college
Comparability: When being right may not be enough
Existential Takes on First Year Induction and Professional Development
The need for harsh truths: one ed major's story
Save the date -- NCTQ conference on collective bargaining
Save the date -- 2008 State Teacher Policy Yearbook launch
Andy's new hybrid
Take two on comparing induction programs
San Diego's new crystal ball
Today's TQB is brought to you by the letter Q
Desperation drives Dallas to duplicitous deed
Dallas flunks layoffs except for criteria
Can TFA stay on its growth curve?
NCATE ready to change accreditation process
New York: They may be bad, but they're still ours
Time for learning gets shrug from Seattle schools
Save the date--NCTQ Conference on Collective Bargaining
Save the date--2008 State Teacher Policy Yearbook launch
On a positive note: AmeriCorps for musicians?
Improving teacher quality through tenure
Improving teacher quality by hiring better teachers
California's mandatory eighth grade algebra nixed for now
Back to business as usual in Washington state politics
Just who is earning performance pay in Texas?
Unchartered territory in Massachusetts
Pa. ed schools complain about new certification regs
Extended vacation in Rio Rancho?
Columbus teachers' union quits tutoring business
Another take on the promise of peer review
Unusual bedfellows in the Big Apple
Grading policy change neglects teacher views
Best ideas department
Drug testing of teachers: Does a contract make a difference?
Georgia school district granted waiver for meeting state requirements
KIPP's conundrum
No more double dipping in Florida
National Board certification has seen sunnier days in Florida, D.C.
Teachers' contracts: They're complicated
Adding the voom to VAM: new research on value-added
Incentives to cheat
2008 State Teacher Policy Yearbook: What states can do to retain effective new teachers
Between a rock and a hard place, there are still better choices
Tangibly terrible teacher 'tistics: New study from UVA's Pianta
Trusting your local commie, radical, hippie, leftie researcher
Gotta go halfway around the world to do a tracking study
LA union bashes even low-stakes testing
Charters, unions and other tiresome references to body parts
New TQB feature: What does it take to fire a teacher?
Real alt cert news...do not skip this!
Minnesota's Q Comp a bust and other pay news
Minnesota miracle with math turnaround specialist Prof. Bill Schmidt
NCTQ Collective Bargaining Conference
Conflicting perspectives from MetLife and NEA
Common sense from Common Good
Continuing Series: What does it take to fire a teacher?
No surprise here: TFA, TNTP applications surge
Teacher preparation: Defending what can't be defended?
Hawaii: Where so much is wrong, is anyone doing it right?
Union tussles in Rhode Island and West Virginia
Pensions bring discord to Music City
...And the winner is! NCTQ collective bargaining conference
Unions agree with Obama except when they don't
Think the uniform salary schedule is uniform? Think again.
What we're all learning about collective bargaining
We're not afraid of 60 Minutes! Battling back on their take on pension plans
Learning why some children have a hard time learning
Controversial alt cert route has surprising win in Oklahoma
What a teacher has to do to get fired: We STILL don't know!
Early-career teachers in the spotlight: Q & A with Teach Plus founder Celine Coggins
Test scores linked to teachers: New York Assembly chair says no; Dallas says yes
Multiple intelligences: no; multiplying intelligence: yes
Classroom vets v. Teach For America: Who do you love the most?
A third way: San Diego avoids layoffs through early retirements
What rabbis can teach about teaching
Stagnant achievement gap not the only worrying trend
Real research on the merit of teaching bonuses
Massachusetts takes it on the chin again for upping teacher standards
Fear and loathing in the nation's school districts
Forum on Teacher Retirement Benefits
Layoffs hit hardest in L.A.'s most troubled neighborhoods
Indiana superintendent's end run around unions
Districts getting tough
Book Review: Willingham's "Why Don't Students Like School"
Legislation barring secret deals? Isn't that what legislators do?
Value added models still need work
Student race and teacher assignment in Charlotte
Digging holes and filling them up would be fine too
NCATE begins its reinvention
Louisiana teacher prep results are not as previously reported
Testing our patience rather than student performance
Ackerman wants big contract changes
Learning classroom management simStyle
Book review: Moe and Chubb's Liberating Learning
Throwing money away on the M.A.
Providence tackles seniority in teacher hiring
Massachusetts getting ready for Feds
Charlotte layoffs: diet or purge?
Ed school renegade takes top NY post
KIPP, Kopp and the "master teacher"
Colorado may be used to high altitudes but can it compete in Race to the Top?
Back to school with Tony Danza
Private sector tips on managing teachers
The upside of peer pressure
School accountability without unintended consequences
NCTQ is moving and TQB is taking a break
Do Cadillac induction programs select Chevy mentors?
Should students have a say on teacher evaluations?
Performance pay without borders
Less than a ringing endorsement for ABCTE
Did L.A.'s Duffy throw subs under the bus?
Teaching's pecking order: prestige assignments
Displaced teachers: Denver's struggle to make lemonade
What does it take to fire a teacher?
D.C. teacher layoffs: Not for the faint of heart
New NCTQ ratings on western ed schools now available
NCTQ welcomes new board members
Steiner makes his move
The problems and pitfalls of moving around teacher talent
Band-aid for Memphis math woes won't stick
Rough reviews for performance pay
Unions may not yield higher teacher salaries
Are there cracks in seniority's armor?
Is New Haven teacher contract up to its billing?
COMING SOON - 2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook
NCTQ releases Race to the Top scorecard
Pension system gets squeezed in PA
Certification wars: there's no need to fight dirty
National certification program for principals could become a reality
Goldilocks and the three teacher preparation programs
Raising the bar in Rhode Island
Detroit battles over contract
NCTQ welcomes Colorado Lt. Governor to board
All-in for STEM teacher preparation
Female teachers' unfortunate legacy to young girls
Book Review: Creating a New Teaching Profession
VAM estimates are reasonable factors in tenure decision
Teacher hiring: Moving past rolling the dice
TFA touts Louisiana data, this time getting it right
Just when we forgot what HQT even means!
Dumping on teachers doesn't pay off in Baltimore County
Indiana introduces sweeping changes for teacher licensing
When it comes to licensing tests, we need the wisdom of Solomon
State of the States: NCTQ Releases 2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook
The gift that keeps on giving
A $19 million dollar grant to try to change a leopard's spots?
New Houston superintendent wastes no time
Missouri superintendents seek some sunshine
Take two aspirin and call your principal in the morning
Closing the comparability loophole
A Colorado school district that's going great guns on performance pay--and it's not Denver
Taking seniority out of the driver's seat on layoffs
Teachers don't agree to shape up, get shipped out
Teaching to the test in Connecticut?
Sox it to 'em: NCTQ releases report on human capital in Boston schools
Become an NCTQ "Fan" on Facebook
RIP Jaime Escalante
Wilson Fellowships: high end solution
30-year case closed in Alabama
What does a preschool teacher need to know?
Is high teacher turnover survival of the fittest?
What is your favorite letter? E! E! E! for ESEA and Effectiveness
Great new VAM research on predicting teacher effectiveness
LAUSD school board turns schools over to teachers
A race to the middle
Can a teacher be born again?
Erratum
Call for proposals: national research competition on teacher quality
Book review: Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
Another KIPP wants out of the UFT
The peaks and valleys of teacher absenteeism
A master's of arts in teaching from Teach For America U?
U.S. mathematics teachers, getting lost in the middle
Nebraska (!) takes baby steps on performance pay
Not-so-great expectations
School funding: too much or too little?
Rubber rooms deflated
The real news, not the gossip, behind the proposed D.C. contract
NCTQ releases study on Texas ed schools
Got something to say? Enter NCTQ's 2011 research competition!
Boston students evaluate teachers
Top teachers earn top pay...when they stop teaching
Double Trouble: Twin study shows affect of teacher quality on reading development
Principals make good calls when they've got the say
Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match
When times get tough, should new teachers get packing?
Is Arizona a state on a mission?
Luring top teachers into struggling schools: Can Massachusetts succeed?
Editorial: The collision of academic freedom and public accountability
Letter to the editor
A growing crop of teachers in the Mississippi Delta
In and out
So much for moving away from factory-model work rules
New teacher-training avatars that only James Cameron could afford
Retirement-what's that? Recognizing a 75-year veteran
The legacy of kindergarten
How many textbooks?
Third year's the charm?
Opportunity at the top
New evaluation system, same story?
Slowing down Sanders' steam
Moving towards the right diagnosis: DC's IMPACT and teacher ratings
America's greatest education governor?
Teacher attrition: We're busting all the myths
Rules or not, teachers make rational decisions (UPDATE)
Talking tough: just how good does a teacher need to be?
Policy lessons on VAM for you lucky RTT states
Touching the untouchables: Pensions and benefits
The Achievement gap: Can we force history to repeat itself?
Louisiana! You gotta play fair!
Guest Editorial
Edujobs: What really happened?
Carrots without sticks in Vanderbilt performance pay study
McKinsey Report: Shrinking the tent
Ed school attitudes about the teaching profession
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater
Not putting your money where your mouth is
States jump on teacher performance assessment bandwagon
Updates about certification in Connecticut and accents in Arizona
Debunking the small-class myth
New from NCTQ: The All-Purpose Science Teacher
You may not be getting any younger, but teachers are
Quick rundown on Pittsburgh's new Gates-fueled contract
Morsels of teacher research on offer, courtesy of Chicago
Forcing the issue: Cincinnati's finest given no choice in where they teach
80% of success may be showing up--though not apparently in Newark
A horse is a horse, of course, of course...but tell us what makes a good math teacher!
Big strides and bigger challenges in Baltimore
No room at the inn for student teachers
The student teacher tsunami
Value-added test scores for teacher evaluation: Aw shucks. . .do they have to be valid?
An economist's assessment of "Assessing the Compensation of Public School Teachers"
National Review Myth Buster #9: NCTQ's National Review is an "open book"
More information but no bottom line on charter school management organizations
Teacher educator asks right question: Just why are deans so resistant to national review?
Assessing the Spin of "Assessing the Compensation of Public School Teachers"
Our Thanks to Alaska
Tennessee Moves to Reform Teacher Preparation
Highest-Performing Minority Students not Becoming Teachers
Firing Goes High Tech in Chicago
Merit-Pay Melee in the Mile-High City
Rudy's Recruiting a New Crew
Tarheel Troubles, Take Two
Home-Grown Teacher Training
Darling-Hammond vs. TFA: The Battle Continues
NCTQ Advisory Board Member Jason Kamras Named 2005 National Teacher of the Year
Publicity, Please!
Correction
A MATCH made in heaven?
The Pressure is On in L.A.
Are Missouri teachers going to "like" the repeal of the Facebook ban?
Digging Deeper Into Teacher Layoffs
Teacher Voice in the Deseret News
Mentoring matters
What teachers think about teacher prep
Sea change in teacher effectiveness policies
State school boards want teacher prep to catch up with . . . the NCAA
Second this call for transparency
Gone already?
Burning the candle?
A lesson to be learned from the teaching profession
The power of perception
How popular are defined benefit pension plans?
Warren Buffett's right on the money
Massachusetts take two: Springfield style
National Review Myth Buster #8: Standards on coursework are NOT arbitrary
Teacher prep value-added models aren't even at stage 1.0
Boosting teachers... and teacher evaluations
Hot off the press: The latest on the value-added of teacher prep programs
The increasing importance of teacher preparation quality
Randi is Right
Character study? the gritty truth
Nowhere to go but up?
Finally a Bride
One of those (sets of) pictures that speaks a thousand words
Where the rubber meets the road
Filling the ed school glass
Sick Leave Headaches
Wireless mentors
Abandon all hope when NCTQ rates you?
Inputs vs. Outputs? Why Should We Have to Choose?
Nat'l Rev Myth Buster #7: Let's hear it for innovation- that's built on strong core principles
Bargain hunting among teacher preparation courses?
Heart Pitter Patters for Terry Grier
Re-testing for results?
The court "likes" Missouri teachers
The Price of Making Teacher Evaluations Public
What the teacher surplus means for teacher preparation
Chicago extends its school year -- finally!
Q and A with Hartford Parent Organization Council
Spending on education?
The public weighs in: sacred cows and selectivity
Stocks. . . bonds. . . or teachers?
How much field work should teacher candidates do? Somewhere between 0 and 800 hours...
Baltimore's Catch-22
Thank you - Council of Great City Schools
National Review Myth Buster #6: Shouldn't teacher candidates meet higher academic standards than football players?
National Review Myth Buster #5: Whether an institution is public or private doesn't amount to a hill of beans when we rate on standards
A former ed school dean weighs in on student teaching issues
National Review Myth Buster #4: We are formal teacher preparation's best friend
Be careful what you wish for
Should we care where teachers come from?
Suspicious Behavior
The elephant in the teacher prep room
We want to hear from teachers about teacher prep
Beyond the Big Bucks
Shuffle has no love from us
True partnership means REAL communication
Ogden schools: Putting the cart before the horse
Teachers having a voice, being heard
Puzzling lack of consensus: What to teach new teachers?
Friends don't let friends turn themselves "upside-down" when they can barely stand upright
Preview of NCTQ's "rating clearinghouse" for our national review of teacher prep
Student Teaching in the United States
Coming tomorrow: NCTQ releases unprecedented examination of student teaching
There's always a first time...
National Review Myth Buster #3: Independent from TFA
National Review Myth Buster #2: Diverse Funders with a Common Goal of Improving Teacher Prep
National Review Myth Buster #1: No bias on the basis of state regulations
(New) Business as Usual
IB's surprising indifference to teacher quality
Money-back guaranteed teacher preparation
Alternative certification isn't alternative, redux.
A tale of three cities
Where is teacher evaluation collectively bargained?
Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick blog
Lowdown on Los Angeles
Book Review: Too Simple to Fail: A Case for Educational Change by R. Barker Bausell
More on content knowledge: PD and middle school math
Content knowledge: The once and future king?
Zooming in on lecture-style teaching
Summer heats up over school pension reform
Q & A with NewTLA co-founder, Mike Stryer
Don't know much about. . .
Under the microscope: teacher preparation
NCTQ at the Movies: Bad Teacher
Self-control in the classroom
The Danger of Waivers for Favors
Changing the Catch 22 for master educators
The beat goes on
Hot tip for special ed students who want to excel academically -- steer clear of special ed teachers
Here's one report card we won't put on the fridge
NCTQ's national review: An unnecessary tug of war between inputs and outcomes
A fail-safe education?
Welcome to latest Advisory Board member
Thank you Chiefs for Change
When school isn't out for summer
Film Review: American Teacher
The pension house of cards grows ever shakier
Teacher mobility: Getting the best teachers where they are needed the most
To HQT or not to HQT
Guest Editorial: What to make of the power of SES
Watch the pendulum swing:Teachers matter.
Teachers don't matter.
Teachers matter.
Teachers don't matter.
Three Questions on Race to the Top 2.0
5 myths about performance pay
Connecting the dots...
Who's the mark?
Having their cake and eating it too
Holding students harmless from class size increases
Common Content Dustup
NCTQ announces more additions to its Advisory Board
Quasi-conclusions on quasi-experiments
Shortage fatigue
Against all logic
Editorial: Beyond collective bargaining
NCTQ launches transparency effort on national review
Even more sunshine!
How long does it take to count to 10?
Let the Sunshine In!
Our Review of Teacher Preparation Programs with U.S. News: Setting the Record Straight
Where are the best teachers? (Hint: Right where you think they are)
Nashville Performance Pay Study Under Fire
NCTQ brings you a new acronym: PDQ!
Quick hits
Natural experiments in collective bargaining
Special effects: The impact of graduate degrees in special education
Message to Washington State: Make sure there's not a hole in your pocketbook
Late hiring: Keeping tune with the dance of the lemons?
A user's guide for VAM
Value-added does not measure popularity
Making evaluation really count
A close encounter with IMPACT
NCTQ is Now a Piece of the PIE
NCTQ announces additions to its Advisory Board
Study methods put to the test
How ineffective is your teacher?
Why Providence pink-slipped all its teachers
Teacher U passes the baton to Relay
Is the sky really falling? DC schools and the UN-firing of 75 teachers
NCTQ welcomes Arthur McKee
In brief
The value of value-added
Book Review: Profit of Education
Class size reduction a bust in Florida--will somebody tell the voters?
Taking the time, and making it count
What are the odds that these studies will show up on the evening news?
In and out in less than five: Teaching's revolving door
Deciding which teachers must go is not a job all principals want
Is DC in reverse? The latest fallout
New NCTQ report card on Illinois education schools
Gates/MET releases first set of findings on teacher effectiveness
A plug for pension papers
How did Hester Prynne's burning at the stake make you feel?
Edujobs: Our skepticism continues
Lawsuit forces LA to play fairer
Closing the achievement gap: we just need more 90210's!
Can we bump HR from teacher hiring?
This is how you do turnarounds
Spread the word -- there's a great job opportunity at NCTQ!
New publications from NCTQ's district shop:
An apple for Mrs. Avatar?
Turn over a rock on absences, find another rock to turn over on testing
Measuring the $ worth of great--and not so great--teachers
Which states are wasting the most money?
Training, shmaining...Once again teacher preparation comes to naught
Seniority-based layoffs losing ground--again
Teacher dismissals: I thought you'd never leave
Editorial: Parsing the difference between what is and what could be
2010 State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Blueprint for Change
Adamowski forsakes Ivory Tower for real work
School textbooks: Publishers gone wild
Can I get a job like this?
New wave of legislation in California targets teacher quality
The latest performance pay news
Another study finds experience isn't all it is cracked up to be
Steppin' out of the ring
Job-related or race-related?
We're coo-coo for curricular coups
Drama and behind-the-scenes chicanery over state reading tests
Our cheeky take on the fall's teacher strikes
And You Thought We Were Tough on Ed Schools. . .
TQ supergroup coming soon
Retired and rehired
Performance pay gets second wind in Iowa
Differential pay catching on?
Flat world, flat ideas
Another skirmish in the reading war that won't end
Social justice or so much for justice?
The feds, the reformers, and the union: three takes on NCLB
Clarification on Mathematica
TFA adds up
Buckeye Bob's bill
Competency at what price?
Differential pay can work
Keeping the system strong, one kid at a time
Problems in the preparation pipeline
NCTQ study's domino effect?
More bad news for the National Board
Disposing of a disposition
Mayor and union vie for gold medal in the bold moves division
Title I troubles?
Castin' out salary lures and waitin' for the fish to bite
How far does a dollar go?
Burning down the HOUSSE
National Board scored
A lesson in reality: inequality in teacher quality
Reading wrap-up
Fox in the henhouse
Absence makes the district wonder
California solutions for retaining teachers
TFA rakes it in
Tightening the screws on loose reporting
Good for Gordon
Goldhaber gold mine
Oprah takes on education
Carson City snoozer
NCTQ to Release Major Study on Teacher Prep in Reading
You mean recess isn't a class?
Status Quo running scared in Longhorn territory
Better luck next time for merit pay in Little Rock
Promising alternative in the Golden State
The Teaching Commission's swansong
National Board: great expectations, uncertain results
Friedman take note: more evidence of American complacency
Calls for wrapping adjuncts in red tape
Principals, teachers, and performance pay
Aloha, TFA!
New Orleans, new addresses
Merit pay in the Buckeye capital?
Teacher truancy in the Windy City
NEA fears it's not in Kansas anymore
Teaching Teachers How to Teach Reading: Don't Rock the Boat
Highly qualified or not?
Value-added Buckeye style
Alabama catching up
Tarheel teacher tempest
Merit pay update
Gender gap investigated
Humble pie all around
State of the budget
First We Take Little Rock
Texas Alt Cert a Bust?
Florida Nixes Co-Teaching
Are Teachers Underpaid? Two States Weigh In
Protecting Mediocre Teachers in Illinois
More HQT Revisions from US ED
We Honor Arizona for Top Certification Horror Story of the Year
The Failings (and Possibilities) of Alternative Certification
Department of scary statistics
Lone Star State gets merit pay
Another swipe at status quo teacher ed
California update
Groundhog Day at NCATE
Treacherous transfer policies
Technically qualified
What we are and are not reading about NCLB
Rhode Island roundup
Value-added, Buckeye style
Revealing school budgets in California
Early warning
Victory in Denver
Tenure turmoil
NYT sees it our way
Highly forgiving
TFA and the Discomfort Zone
Attitude problem
Corporate teacher transition
You're not teaching in my school district
Tarheel testing: from bad to worse?
Serious merit pay
A bold move in Minnesota
Are districts misspending Title I funds?
More details emerge on NYC-UFT contract
Role model shortage?
Highly miffed
Troops turned teachers
Talent rather than seniority
Disputing dispositions
The moral dilemma of reassigning great teachers: a bad move for schools under the gun?
Hunting high and low
California alt cert route deemed suspect
Teacher health care costs skyrocketing
Merit pay mistakes
Secretary's 4th annual report on TQ: we're doing great!
Ed school deja vu
Attrition blues
Seduction strategies for the third-year teacher
Cream of the Yale crop
Hoosier State: how not to do alt cert
Sleazy (And Fun!) Certification Scam in the Sunshine State
Humble beginnings for merit pay in the Land of 10,000 Lakes
Merit pay in Dixie
On Youthful Dreams, the Hour of Our Death and Teacher Pay
Seeking Good Writers
Education Preparation and Training Pales by Comparison
Views That Leave Us Scratching Our Heads
No New Merit Pay for the Lone Star State
Value-Added in Gotham!
More Teachers, Please
Dispositions or attitudes?
NYC Teachers' Unexamined Exodus
New York's $20 Million Rubber Room
Toeing the line of decency
Profiling Alt Cert Teachers
Paras Get Relaxed Deadline
Democratic decision in Denver
Houston's attempt to revive merit pay
AACTE Takes Offensive on HEA Reauthorization
Lyon into the lion's den
Summer blockbusters: Big Studies from OECD and AERA
NCTQ Staffers Learn How They Got To Be So Brilliant- or Not
Hangin' Out Under the Bridge, Lookin' to Get Certified
Paying Teachers What They're Worth
Accountability Comes to the Tutoring Industry
The Do's and Don'ts of Merit Pay
Merit Pay Pitfalls and Other Gold Nuggets from Hanushek Et Al.
Special Ed Grumblings
Teacher Poll Indicates Strong Support of Pay Reform
An Accurate Portrait of Teaching
Inside the Black Box
Merit Pay for Longhorns
Testing Tussle in Tarheel Territory
National Board Critics Charge Back
New Study Blasts R.I. Teacher Contract Process
Discussions Continue in Utah
Chicago Officials Gloat over Bad Tutoring
Addressing Ed Schools' Bottom Dwellers
by NCTQ President, Kate Walsh
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Keeping experienced teachers in all classrooms
Virginia & the Praxis I: It?s all about timing
Who needs social security anyway?
Adding teachers, not subtracting students, equals smaller class sizes in Florida
Fix this funding gap!
Spellings soft on states?
National Partnership to Address Hard-to-Staff Schools
Turning Peer Pressure into Model Behavior
Solving Immigration Problems When Recruiting Teachers from Overseas
Alaska Looks to Videotape for Teacher Evaluation
NYC's UFT Goes Charter
Beating the Bushes for $20 Billion in the Big Apple
Fueling Merit Pay in Texas
Small Classrooms, Big Headaches in the Sunshine State
Utah Takes a Page from the North Dakota Playbook
Koret Road Show on Ed Reform
Merit Pay Plans Abound
South Carolina National Board: Right on Target
A Step Backward in San Diego
Chicago: Where the Feds Don't Blink
Pennsylvania Drops the Ball on Special Education
North Dakota: A Victory Apparent
Two Sides on Union Reform
The Windy City: Battle Ground on Supplemental Services (A.K.A: Tutoring)
More News on the HQT Front
The Latest on North Dakota
Tying Teacher Pay to Merit, Not Tenure
What Do the NEA and PollyAnna Have in Common?
Horne Pushes for NCATE Accreditation in Arizona
Rosy Report for Schools of Education
Meritorious Designation
Alt Cert Moves Mainstream
On Politics and Highly Qualified Teachers in North Dakota
Special Ed Teachers Left Holding the Bag
Teacher shortages in California
¿Qué vamos a hacer?
Feds Nix Chicago Tutoring Program
Duking it Out New York Style
North Dakota Considers Single Pay Package
Feds Begin Enforcing NCLB
Teacher Testing Problems in the Sunshine State
NCTQ Releases
On The Incredibles and the Philosophy of Schooling
Wyoming?s on the Merit-Pay March
Merit Pay from All Corners
Useful Guidance on Alt Cert
Alabama Continued
How-To Guide on Firing Teacher Lights a Fire
Teachers leaving en masse
The Evidence Accumulates
No Way Out?
A Welcome Review
It?s Time to Increase the Odds
Sweet Rewards
State-Funded Laptops Collect Dust
Unveiling the ?Bridge?
Teacher Quality in Connecticut
Buck Stops with Students
Soap Box Research
Adolescent Behavior Theory 101
Showdown at the Class-Size Corral
First They Lose to the Red Sox, Now the Teachers' Union?
Turning Shady Deals into Smart Spending
American Board Embroiled in Political Fire
Who Best To Tutor Our Children
Schools Take Harold and the Purple Crayon to Heart
Turn It Up
Teacher-to-Teacher Website Launched
Teacher Policy 101
Reform Up North
The Yang of Teacher Recruitment: Chicago
The Ying of Teacher Recruitment: New York
You Can't Make This Stuff Up: Teacher Appreciation in New Jersey
To Tutor or Not to Tutor?
Idaho Considers Merit
Heading for the Hills
Roadblock in Alabama
What Bridge Are We Building?
Cut-Rate Reforms in Virginia
Where Teachers' Kids Go to School
TAP expands into Minnesota
Alabama Stalls Again
Performance Pay, Easier Said Than Done
Déjà vu in the Tar Heel State
How Not to Appease Your Critics
Diverging Paths on the Road to Education: Steiner v. Butin
Clock-Watchers
Parochial Unions
US News Peels Away at Schools of Ed
Louisiana Gets Tough on Its Schools of Ed
You've Come a Long Way, Alabama
The Slow March
Union Puts the Kibosh on Delaware Testing the Waters
Endurance Bonuses in Seattle
Denver Sticks by Performance Pay
Taking the Debate to a Whole New Level
NCTQ Announces New 35-Member Advisory Board
Brief Hiatus for TQB
Coming to a Convention Hall Near You
Stepping Up Early Childhood Ed
Imig Leaves AACTE
Piecemeal No More
Orange County Plays ?Musical Teachers???
Dictating Reform
Removing All the Wrong Barriers to Teaching
Taking On Steiner
Reading Between the Lines: Special Ed's path to HQT
On Ways We Want NCLB to Fail
NEA Takes Its Shot at the American Board
The Risks of the Job
The Pay May Be Lousy, But You Are Loved
AFT Unveils Annual Salary Survey Data
Buying Your Way into the Classroom
AFT Gathers in Washington
ETS Goofs
States Graded on Progress with Teacher Quality Provisions
Define
Teachers Laid Off While CEO Plans to Blast Off ?
New Resource for Teacher Quality Junkies
Paying for a New Kind of Performance
Report Looks at New Teachers in Boston
The Comings and Goings of Missouri's Teachers
Southeast Center Blasts TFA Study
ABCTE Announces First Class of Certified Candidates
New York's Back
States Step Back from Lawsuit
The NEA's In Town
In Some Places, Teachers' Unions Really Are Terrorists
Corporal Punishment Lives On In Many States
North Carolina Bags Incentive Program
Stotsky Turns a Critical Eye on U.S. History Teachers
If You're Not Part of the Solution
Chicago Teachers Face an Uncertain Future
Texans Blaze an Alternative Trail
Florida Adopts American Board
Goldhaber and Anthony Revisited
New Jersey Steps it Up
Pennsylvania Retreats
Resisting the Sirens of Teacher Induction
Weapons of False Information
A Reversal of Roles
Union Supports Performance Pay ...With a Catch
Move Over Randi and Joel
Teaching English from a Diverse Perspective
Mentoring Lite and Induction Done Right
Group Looks at Hiring Practices in Philadelphia
Study Finds Teach For America Teachers As Good in Reading and Better in Math
Fuller Challenges NCTQ Analysis
Study Finds Disparities Daunting, Compromise Unlikely
Getting Teachers to Stay One Way or Another
Two New Reports on Achievement Gap
Hiring, Firing, and then Hiring Some More
Steiner and Bloggers Greet the Heat
NCATE Nods to its Critics
Sandra Feldman to Resign
Teacher Choice
Pennsylvania Department of Ed Responds
We've Got the New Leaders...Now We Just Need Some New Schools
The Right Remedy?
Kerry Tries to Strike a Bargain With Teachers
Delaware Posts Teacher Standards
The Certification Debate Continues
Reform Stifles World Order
Maryland Poised to Drop Much Abused Plan
The Rush is On
Virginia to Count SAT Scores of Teachers
Backers Back Out in California
Novel Solutions on Teacher Pay
Pennsylvania Dept of Ed Refuses to Release Teacher Test Results
States Get Low Marks on NCLB Compliance
Romney Tries to Free Up the Hatchet
No M?s
Challenging the Constitutionality of Teacher Prep Programs
Resistance Lingers to Texas Teacher Reforms
Inching Forward on Value-Added Adoption
Highly Qualified Teachers, A Matter of Definition
A Job Description for Principals
International Comparisons Reveal Lack of Rigor in U.S. System
Classroom Valets
Death, Taxes, and Rising Health Care Costs?
Hiring, Firing, and Licensing in New York
New School Year Brings New NCLB Stories
Georgia and the Highly Qualified Teacher Challenge
Real Merit Pay Really Works
West Virginia Teachers Stubbornly Stay Alive
Does the NEA Pay Its Taxes?
What's Bad for the Economy is Good for Teaching
The Fox Is Running the Hen House in New Jersey
New Report Puts the Spotlight on Teacher Quality
NCLB Means That Some Reforms Go By The Wayside
NCLB's Transfer Provision Affects Teachers As Well As Students and Schools
Teachers Escape Major Cuts in California
Memphis Proposal Raises Eyebrows
From Iowa to Ignacio, Performance Pay Is In Trouble
Strange Bedfellows
Everyone Qualifies for NC Bonus, But Where's the Money?
Feldman Opposes Budget Cuts
We're Getting A Little Nervous
What to Do With Charter Schools
One Step Forward, Two Back in the Garden State
NYC Lawsuit Challenging Certification as Racist Dismissed
NYC Brouhaha
Exporting Our Worst
OECD Report Released
How Urban Districts Lose Quality Teachers
New Frontiers in School Staffing
Atlanta Having Trouble Meeting Promised Bonus Payments
An Offer You Can't Refuse: More Money For Less Work
Detroit Teachers to Strike Over Charters
Broad Foundation Steps Up To The Plate
North Carolina Teacher Attrition Data
No Vacancies
Massachusetts Decides Not to Test Teachers
A Teacher Supply Proposal From Darling-Hammond and Sykes
Rhode Island Finally Adopts Alt Cert
No More Hot Potatoes in Louisiana
Dontcha Just Hate It When...
Measuring the Impact of Good Principals on Student Achievement
Study Suggests That Preschoolers Benefit From College-Educated Teachers
Do We Detect A Shift?
Notes from Florida's Education Civil War
American Board Lands Sizable Grant
Mixed Week for Merit Pay
Coming Up With The (Bonus) Money
Massachusetts Raises Requirements, Irking Some Teachers
Department of Ed Recognizes TEAC
Classroom Discipline Around the World
Your District Can Be Successful, Too!
New York City Must Hold Referendum, Judge Rules
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Grant to American Board Met With Predictable Reactions
Detroit Teachers Face Backlash
Teaching, Curriculum, and Math
Smart Spending Pays Off
Maryland Teacher Preparation Program Put on Probation
Klein Lashes Out at Union Contract
Teachers Back to Work in Marysville
Terminator, Gubernator, Educator?
Steady Salary Gains in the South
Conference Breaks New Ground
Snafu
What is Virginia Thinking?
City Schools Employing More Highly Qualified Teachers
How Many Teachers Are Highly Qualified in Your State?
Punished for Doing Their Job
Marysville, Marysville
Dick Riordan Gets the Call in California
Growing Evidence on Class Size
Study of Ed Schools Draws Predictable Ire
He Who Giveth Can Take Away
What Idaho Knows
Texas Embraces Competitive Certification, Unions Object Loudly
States Fudge Figures on HQT (An Update)
Philadelphia Airs Its Own Dirty Laundry
Pension Battle Brewing in Alabama
Programs to Help Teachers and Students
New York City School Reforms: Miracle in the Making or Disaster Waiting to Happen?
The Trials and Tribulations of Merit Pay in Florida
Feisty, Fighting Unions Take on Battles Around the Country
Budget Cuts Lead to Program, Teacher Cuts
Deviant Vermont Teachers Exposed
Objection!
Enron to Edison
How Are State Departments of Education Just Like Your Mother-in-Law?
The Texas Two-Step
You Couldn't Pay Me Enough...
Highly Quantified
The Physics of NCLB
K12 Beaten Back
Paying Your Dues
Racial Politics in Detroit
State of the Unions
On the Importance of Parent-Teacher Conferences
Please Put Down Your Pencils. I'll Take It From Here.
Middle School Certification
New Jersey Numbers Trickle In
Tracking California's Quality Quest
Double Dipping in Maryland
NEA Audited, Denies Political Activity
They're Suing for What?
All I Want for Christmas is Bridgehampton's Budget
School Leaders on Teacher Quality
Minneapolis Pensions are on Shaky Ground
California Progress Stopped in Its Tracks
Can Portfolios Withstand Legal Challenges?
More HQT Numbers Reported; More Doubts Arise
Reforming Teacher Hiring Practices in Michigan
Proposal To Ease Teaching Standards in Virginia
Maryland Teacher Standards Get Slammed
Deregulating Teacher Regs in Georgia
Message from the President
How Not to Talk to Teachers
Quiet Progress in Iraqi Schools
Fordham Ed Reform Prizes Awarded
Iowa Mulls Licensing Student Teachers
Number Games
Teacher Attrition: Crisis Or Red Herring?
Superintendent Proposes Labor Reforms; Union Scoffs
Deficits and Layoffs From Coast to Coast
From Gotham To Dixie, Tenure Reform Is On A Roll
Tinkering With Incentive Pay Around The Nation
Of Mites, Mice, and Men
The Virtual Alternative
Promising Alt Cert Programs Passed
The Declining Quality of Teachers
Upping The Ante On Hardship Pay
States Move On Hardship Pay, Pay Increases
Bush Ends NBPTS Funding
Survey of New Teachers Yields the Desired Results
Tennesee Value-Added System Faces Threat by Legislature
A Dose of Refreshing Honesty, Words from an Ed Reformer
You Won't
American Board Tests Are Up and Running
Testing Principals
Race in the Classroom
Mentoring Teachers to Stick Around
Study Claims School Facilities Impact Teacher Retention More Than Pay
Adding Value to the Poorly Informed Debate on Teacher Quality
Is It True There's No Such Thing As Bad Publicity?
Alternative Certification Measure Passes in Texas
Continuing to Rethink Teacher Pay
Federal Study to Look at Teacher Education Programs
Vigilante Justice In a New York Middle School
Good Legislation Alert
What Do Teachers Think?
Just How Effective is Online Training
Urging Teachers To Appreciate The Value of Research
Boston's Program To Get More Teachers in the Classroom
Tech Industry Talent Moves to Public Schools
How Can Good Teachers Not Know Their Subject Matter?
We've Signed; Have You?
Surprise! Smarter Teachers=Higher Student Achievement
Rising Violence Against NY Teachers
The Toughest Question in Teacher Quality: Are Teachers Underpaid?
Double Principal Salaries, Says Washington Post Columnist
When is An Alternative Certification Program...Not?
Paige: All Kids Can Learn, All Districts Can Succeed
Texas Teachers' Aides Get New Options
Testing Requirements Sends Rhode Island Scrambling
Conscientious Objection
Gangs of New York
Mixed Signals On Social Studies
Romney Floats Plan to Empower Principals, Light Fire Under Teachers
Tennessee's Innovative Approach To HQT
California Is Shooting Itself in the Foot
C'mon Seven...Teacher Needs a Raise
Teacher Tenure: Chapman With a Chainsaw
School Districts And Last-Minute Hiring
Teacher Attrition: How Real Is The Problem?
Who Benefits From Benefits?
A Look Into the Minds of Teachers
Merit Pay May Come to Denver
There is No National Teacher Shortage," Claims Researcher
Teachers, Test Scores, and Confidentiality
In California, a Silver Lining
Oregon Legislators To Teachers: What Are You Smoking?
Vermont: A Teacher's Paradise?
What Does it Mean to Teach English?
Teacher Qualifications in the Windy City
Paraprofessionals and No Child Left Behind
Teacher Pay in PA
Perfomance Pay Off to a Slow Start in Florida
California Cutbacks Ignore Teacher Quality
Internet Traffic Jam Over Charter Schools
Montana and NCLB
North Carolina Survey Finds Teacher Dissatisfaction
Kaplan Enters Teacher Ed
New Video Study on Math Instruction
Mixed News on Bilingual Education
Alaska Challenged By NCLB Teacher Requirements
Budget Woes Affect Teacher Quality
Secretary Paige Supports American Board Certification
Short Takes
Alabama Panel Recommends Drastic Cuts
TFA to Expand to Sin City
Pension Fund's Fortunes Head South
Schwarzenegger Secures Union Support for His Ed Budget
Quality Counts 2004 Released, Teacher Quality Update
Class Size Limits
Grappling With Professional Development (Again)
Wise Words On Professional Development and Instructional Leadership
Will the Future Bring the End of School?
Curtailing Teacher Strikes in Washington State
Teachers' Unions Target Charter Schools
North Carolina Makes A Wrong Turn
Ohio Takes Big Step Towards Improving Teacher Quality
Useful New Website
The Teaching Commission Releases Blockbuster Report
Top-Down Management Ticks Off NYC Teachers
Weingarten Advocates Streamlining Firing Process
The Union Versus Bonus Pay
A Few Teachers Are Very Well Paid
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
The Sorry State of Teachers' Contract Negotiations
Will Content Testing Come to Iowa?