Under a series of actions taken over the past year and a half by the New York State Board of Regents, the body that oversees P-12 education, higher education, and teacher certification, the doors have been opened for nonuniversity programs to prepare teachers at the graduate-degree level. Additionally, the first new graduate school of education Read more about N.Y. Thinks Outside Teacher Education Box[…]
The fact that well-qualified teachers are inequitably distributed to students in the United States has received growing public attention. Studies in state after state have found that students of color in low- income schools are 3 to 10 times more likely to have unqualified teachers than students in predominantly white schools. In Speaking of Salaries: Read more about Speaking of Salaries: A Report from the Center for American Progress[…]
In a blog post written by Jack Jennings, Center for Education Policy’s president, Jennings discusses achievement gains of white, Latino, and African American students on the long-term National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The blog points out that while general trends show a mixed picture of achievement gains over the last four decades, Latino and Read more about Student Subgroups and NAEP[…]
A $99 million teacher bonus program that Washington legislators designed to lure good teachers into high-poverty schools has not worked as intended, according to a new analysis from the University of Washington Bothell’s Center on Reinventing Public Education. Washington State provides $5,000 bonuses to those teachers who undergo and pass the rigorous national board certification Read more about Questioning the Effects of Bonuses for National Board Certified Teachers[…]
What makes teachers effective, and how do you measure and cultivate it, especially in high-minority, high-poverty schools? At the recent Civil Rights Research Roundtable, convened by the Warren Institute, researchers proposed very different answers – and often viewed their theories of action as mutually exclusive. Two major theories of action emerged at the roundtable, as Read more about Theories of Action for Teacher Effectiveness[…]