Educational Equity: Challenges for Educator Effectiveness
Jane Best and Emily Winslow at McREL Education have released a new brief focusing on current challenges of working toward equity in education. Particularly in a post Vergara vs. California education...
View ArticleTeacher Retention and TFA
More than 87 percent of TFA teachers say they don’t plan on remaining teachers throughout their careers, compared with 26.3 percent of non-TFA teachers working in the same subjects, grades, and...
View ArticleThere Isn’t Really a Mass Exodus of Good Teachers
There is no systemic evidence that all the best teachers are leaving. In fact the opposite appears to be true. More research and more years of data, are needed, but early results seem promising that...
View ArticleLongitudinal Research on Teacher Attrition
NCES has recently released “Public School Teacher Attrition and Mobility in the First Five Years: Results From the First Through Fifth Waves of the 2007–08 Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study“. The...
View ArticleVergara and the Complexities of Teacher Employment Policies — an ECS Policy...
Teacher employment policies — tenure, dismissal and seniority — have been debated for years, but with recent cases playing out in the courts the disputes have been elevated to new levels. What is best...
View ArticleTeaching Experience Matters More Than We Used to Think
Two new research studies that evaluated vast amounts of data both concluded that teachers continue to improve over the course of their careers. The prevailing wisdom from previous research, which many...
View ArticleDeveloping Workplaces Where Teachers Stay, Improve and Succeed
Professors Matthew Kraft and John Papay discuss research showing that the school contexts in which teachers work have a profound influence on their effectiveness. Below are excerpts from their article:...
View ArticleCan We Interest You In Teaching?
Frank Bruni has penned a piece highlighting the teaching shortages that have made the news around the country in recent weeks. The shortages are so acute in some places, both urban and rural, that...
View ArticleGiving, Receiving Professional Development Every Day
Joe Ashby was a a multi-classroom leader (MCL) at Buena Vista Enhanced Option Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee before finishing his doctorate and moving on to be a principal in California. He...
View ArticleThe Importance of Teacher Supply to Education Reform
Paul Bruno at the Brookings Institution explores the relationship between teacher evaluation policies and the supply of teachers in a recent article. Overall, teacher evaluations have been ramping up...
View ArticleSchool Characteristics that Keep Teachers in the Field
A study conducted by the National Center on Education Statistics finds that new teachers who have mentor support, participate in an induction program, and have a higher starting base pay are more...
View ArticleBest and Worst States for Teachers for 2015
A recent comparison of data about states, conducted by Wallet Hub, ranked states based on a number of factors. The factors compare data on two category subsets that include: Job Opportunities and...
View ArticleNew Research from NCEE on Teacher Retention
Teaching residency programs are a model of teacher preparation in which prospective teachers complete graduate-level coursework alongside a year-long fieldwork experience in the district in which the...
View ArticleNCES Releases Statistics in Brief on Public School Teacher Autonomy in the...
The National Council of Education Statistics (NCES) has released Public School Teacher Autonomy in the Classroom Across School Years 2003–04, 2007–08, and 2011–12. This report traces the feelings of...
View ArticleNCTQ releases the 2015 State Teacher Policy Yearbook
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) recently released the 2015 report on State Teacher Policy. The report summarizes how the states are doing in developing policies that improve the teaching...
View ArticleWe Are #TEACH STRONG
To create the excellent and equitable education that America’s students deserve, teachers must work to prepare students for a competitive, globalized market. As a result, we are asking more from our...
View ArticleHelp for Drowning Teachers
This past fall, Roxanna Elden, author of the book See Me After Class, began offering teachers a lifeline. Aware that many teachers leave their jobs mid-year, she began offering what she called a...
View ArticleThe Changing Landscape of the Teacher Workforce
Is there really a teacher shortage? This question is a complex one and it is not easily answered. A recent analysis of the data of the teaching landscape by the Education Policy Center at the American...
View ArticleHow to Get a First-Rate Teacher in Front of Every Student
A recent Education Week blog by Marc Tucker examines what it truly takes to get a first-rate teacher in front of every student, and compares the United States systems to the rest of the world. Some...
View ArticleWhere Do Teachers Go When They Leave?
When teachers leave teaching, where do they go next? Are they getting good jobs outside of education? Or are subsequent jobs more of a lateral move? Do teachers who quit teaching also quit working? A...
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