Trend Tracker
Our regular look at current research, trends, and ideas affecting teachers and teaching profession.
A recent survey discovers that teachers’ views on compensation and job expectations can vary depending on age and experience.
(November 18, 2009)
Students feel significant levels of stress about schoolwork as early as elementary school, a new survey from Highlights magazine reveals.
(October 21, 2009)
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)
A new report emphasizes the role of cross-generational learning teams to help keep teachers in the profession.
(April 8, 2009)
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)
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)
A recent survey asked teachers what advice they’d give the next president to improve education in America.
(October 20, 2008)
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)
(September 20, 2006)
The job market for teachers is showing signs of slow but steady improvement, according to a survey of education school officials.
(April 12, 2006)
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)
A poll of parents and teachers provides new data on attitudes towards homework.
(February 8, 2006)
A look at some of the teaching profession’s vital statistics.
(January 17, 2006)
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)
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)
Results from a closely watched national test released this month have heightened concerns about adolescents’ reading skills.
(October 27, 2005)
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)
