Trend Tracker
Our regular look at current research, trends, and ideas affecting teachers and teaching profession.
Teachers’ views on how instructional effectiveness should be measured, as well as how it could be improved, are not well-aligned with current education policy initiatives, according to a new survey report.
(January 27, 2010) – Teacher Magazine
A recent survey discovers that teachers’ views on compensation and job expectations can vary depending on age and experience.
(November 18, 2009) – Teacher Magazine
Students feel significant levels of stress about schoolwork as early as elementary school, a new survey from Highlights magazine reveals.
(October 21, 2009) – Teacher Magazine
Teacher professional learning communities can make the greatest inroads into student learning when they have a highly structured framework in place, according to a recently published study.
(August 5, 2009) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
A new report emphasizes the role of cross-generational learning teams to help keep teachers in the profession.
(April 8, 2009) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
States should do more to support alternative teacher certification programs, in part by loosening licensure requirements, argues a new paper by the Center for American Progress.
(March 4, 2009) – Teacher Magazine
Teachers’ views on their profession have become markedly more positive over the past quarter century, at least partially validating the widespread school-improvement efforts of the period, concludes a retrospective survey report released this week by MetLife, Inc.
(February 25, 2009) – Teacher Magazine
A recent survey asked teachers what advice they’d give the next president to improve education in America.
(October 20, 2008) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
A new study says that lack of sleep is endemic in the teaching profession and that schools may be the worse for it.
(September 23, 2008) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
(September 20, 2006) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
The job market for teachers is showing signs of slow but steady improvement, according to a survey of education school officials.
(April 12, 2006) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
Teaching has undergone fundamental changes in the four years since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act, according to a new national study.
(April 3, 2006) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
A poll of parents and teachers provides new data on attitudes towards homework.
(February 8, 2006) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
A look at some of the teaching profession’s vital statistics.
(January 17, 2006) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
A new study of low-income schools in California has raised some eyebrows by concluding that, when it comes to student achievement, parental involvement is less important than a number of school-based instructional factors.
(December 6, 2005) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
The teaching profession is undergoing a significant “generational shift,” and schools have been slow to adapt to it, says a Harvard professor.
(November 23, 2005) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
Results from a closely watched national test released this month have heightened concerns about adolescents’ reading skills.
(October 27, 2005) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
NCLB may not be universally winning the hearts and minds of educators, but it’s made substantial gains in how the public views it, according to a survey released this week.
(June 22, 2005) – Teacher Magazine (Web)
